A List: Reading – Manga & Comics (2009)

This represents titles I either read for the first time or the first time in a long time.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are either in progress or ones I plan to finish at some point. Titles with an “X” (X) are ones that I don’t plan on completing or are a lower priority for completion.

20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa*
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka*
Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) by Yoko Kamio
ES (Eternal Sabbath) by Fuyumi Soryo
Full Metal Panic: Overload! by Shouji Gatou & illustrated by Tomohiro Nagai
Honey and Clover by Chika Umino*
Honey Hunt by Miki Aihara*
Monster by Naoki Urasawa
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka by Naoki Urasawa, et al.*
Red River by Chie Shinohara*
Sand Chronicles by Hinako Ashihara*
Solanin by Inio Asano
Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino*

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A List: Listening – Music (2009)

Appleseed Original Soundtrack
The Black Crows | Greatest Hits 1990-1999 (A Tribute to a Work in Progress…)
Eric Clapton | Crossroads Box Set
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion O.S.T.
Daft Punk | Discovery
Daughtry | (Self-titled)
Foo Fighters | In Your Honor
Yuki Kajiura | Fiction
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. / Yoko Kanno
Hyde | Faith
Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Kings of Leon | Only By the Night
The Kooks | Inside In Inside Out
L’Arc~en~Ciel | Clicked Singles Best 13
Muse | Black Holes and Revelations
Oasis | Dig Out Your Soul
The Pillows | Ride on Shooting Star EP
The Prodigals | Whiskey Asylum: Select Prodigals Tracks 1999-2009
Radiohead | In Rainbows
Rahxephon O.S.T. 1 / Ichiko Hashimoto
Rahxephon O.S.T. 2 / Ichiko Hashimoto
Mark Ronson | Version
Rush | Chronicles
Saliva | Back Into Your System
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs | Under the Covers, Vol. 1
Justin Timberlake | FutureSex/LoveSounds
Amy Winehouse | Back to Black

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A List: Watching – Movies & TV (2009)

This represents titles I either watched for the first time ever or the first time in a long time.

24 – Day 7*
Bones, Season 2
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Brothers & Sisters, Season 3 (TV)
Burn Notice, Season 1 (TV)
Burn Notice, Season 2 (TV)
Burn Notice, Season 3 (TV)*
Caddyshack
Casanova (2005 / Masterpiece Theatre)
Cash McCall
Castle
(TV)
Charade
Doctor Who, Series 2 (TV)
The French Connection
Friday Night Lights, Season 3 (TV)
Full House (K-drama)
House, Season 5
Man on Fire
Marley and Me
Mister Roberts
No Country for Old Men
One Tree Hill, Season 5 (TV)
One Tree Hill, Season 6 (TV)
Psych, Season 1 (TV)
Psych, Season 2 (TV)
Reaper, Season 2 (TV)
Rome, Season 2 (TV)
Royal Pains, Season 1 (TV)*
Shaun of the Dead

Smallville, Season 8 (TV)
Spaced, Seasons 1-2 (TV)
Speed Racer (Movie)
Stalag 17
Supernatural, Season 3 (TV)
Supernatural, Season 4 (TV)
The Ugly Dachsund
Waitress
Watchmen
Wolverine: X-Men Origins

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A List: Reading – Books/ Non-Work (2009)

This represents titles I either read for the first time or the first time in a long time.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are in progress or ones I plan to finish at some point.

500 Essential Anime Movies by Helen McCarthy
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Year 6)
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis by Jonathan Clements
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham*

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A List: Watching – Anime (2009)

ARIA The NATURAL*
Code Geass: Lelouche of the Rebellion*
Diamond Daydreams (Diamond Dust Drops)
Emma: A Victorian Romance*
Fullmetal Alchemist – First Anime Series*
Gatchaman OAV
Kodocha – Season 1
Maria Watches Over Us (Maria-sama ga Miteru) – Season 2
The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye
Toward the Terra (TV series)

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A List: Watching – Movies & TV (2008)

This represents titles I either watched for the first time ever or the first time in a long time.

27 Dresses
3:10 to Yuma
(2007)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Ballet Shoes
Better Off Dead
Brothers & Sisters, Season 2
(TV)
Brothers & Sisters, Season 3
(TV)*
Burn Notice, Season 2
Catch and Release
The Catherine Tate Show – Series 1
(TV)
Charlie Bartlett
Chuck, Season 1
(TV)
Citizen Kane
Desperate Housewives
(TV)
Doctor Who – First Series
(TV)
Doctor Who – Second Series
(TV)
Doctor Who – Third Series
(TV)
Doctor Who – Fourth Series
(TV)
Equilibrium
Friday Night Lights, Season 1
(TV)
Friday Night Lights, Season 2
(TV)
The Good Shepherd
Heroes, Season 2
(TV)
A History of Violence
Honey and Clover
House, Season 3
(TV)
Hula Girls
Invisible Man, Season 1
(TV)
Knocked Up
Last Quarter
Linda Linda Linda
The Manchurian Candidate
My Lovely Sam-Soon
(TV)
Mystic River
Nana
Nana 2
Network
Once
One Tree Hill, Season 3
(TV)
One Tree Hill, Season 4
(TV)
One Tree Hill, Season 5 (TV)
One Tree Hill, Season 6
(TV)*
P.S., I Love You
Psych, Season 3
(TV)
Reaper, Season 1
(TV)
Rome – Season 1
(TV)
Smallville, Season 8
(TV)*
Supernatural, Season 2
(TV)
Supernatural, Season 4
(TV)*
The Third Man
Veronica Mars, Season 3
(TV)
Zodiac

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A List: Listening – Music (2008)

Listed by artist | CD/LP/EP title

AFI | decemberunderground
Appleseed Original Soundtrack
Eric Clapton | Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton
Coldplay | Viva la Vida
Elvis Costello and the Attractions | The Very Best of…
Elvis Costello | Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years
Gavin DeGraw | (Self-titled)
Derek & the Dominos | Layla
Empire Records Original Picture Soundtrack
Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack 2
Eureka Seven Complete Best
Foo Fighters | In Your Honor
Foo Fighters | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Garbage | BeautifulGarbage
Garbage | Bleed Like Me
Gregory Grene | Flipsides
Hyde | Faith
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings | 100 Days, 100 Nights
Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob
The Killers | Hot Fuss
Lenny Kravitz | 5
Lynyrd Skynyrd | The Best of…
Macross Plus Original Soundtrack (1) / Yoko Kanno
Macross Plus | The Cream P-U-F/ Sharon Apple EP
Maroon 5 | It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Muse | Black Holes and Revelations
New Order | (the best of) New Order
Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth
Oasis | Stop the Clocks
Tom Petty | Full Moon Fever
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd | Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
The Prodigals | Beachland Bootleg
The Prodigals | Momentum
The Prodigals | Whiskey Asylum: Select Prodigals Tracks 1999-2009
Prodigy | The Fat of the Land
Radiohead | In Rainbows
Radiohead | OK Computer
RahXephon O.S.T. 2 / Ichiko Hashimoto
Robert Randolph & the Family Band | Colorblind
Mark Ronson | Version
Rurouni Kenshin | The Best Theme Collection
Saliva | Survival of the Sickest
Saliva | Blood Stained Love Story
Samurai Champloo: Music Record Katana (OST)
The Smithereens | Blown to Smithereens… The Best of…
Matthew Sweet | Time Capsule: The Best of… 1990-2000
Justin Timberlake | FutureSex/LoveSounds
Justin Timberlake | Justified
3 Doors Down | (Self-titled)
Various | JPOP CD 2
Weezer | (Self-titled – Red Album)
Amy Winehouse | Back to Black
Wolf’s Rain O.S.T. 2 (Yoko Kanno)

* Various PASTE Magazine sampler CDs.

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A List: Watching – Anime (2008)

Series that have an asterisk (*) next to them are still “in-progress.”

ARIA The Animation
Batman: Gotham Knight
Bleach*
Blood+
Code Geass, Season 1*
Death Note
Emma: A Victorian Romance*
Eureka Seven
Fullmetal Alchemist*
Gunbuster
Gundam 00*
Gundam SEED Destiny
Gurren Lagann*
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix
InuYasha*
Kodocha*
Le Chevalier D’Eon
Maria Watches Over Us (Maria-sama ga Miteru)*
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
Naruto*
Paprika
Tekkon Kinkreet
To Heart
Toward the Terra
(TV series)*
The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye
Wings of Honneamise (Royal Space Force)

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A List: Reading – Manga & Comics (2008)

This represents titles I either read for the first time or the first time in a long time.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are either in progress or ones I plan to finish at some point. Titles with an “X” (X) are ones that I don’t plan on completing or are a lower priority for completion.

Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki
Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga
Aqua by Kozue Amano
Aria by Kozue Amano*
Basara by Yumi Tamura
Boys Over Flowers by Yoko Kamio*
Emma by Kaoru Mori*
Eureka Seven, original story by BONES, manga by Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou
Fables (ongoing), written by Bill Willingham, illus. by various*
Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya*
Full Metal Panic: Overload! by Shouji Gatou & illustrated by Tomohiro Nagai*
Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi*
Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo
Here Is Greenwood by Yukie Nasu
Honey and Clover by Chika Umino*
Honey Hunt by Miki Aihara*
I.N.V.U. by Kim Kang Won*
Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi
Monster by Naoki Urasawa*
MW by Osamu Tezuka
Nana by Ai Yazawa*
Nodame Cantabile by Tomoko Ninomiya*
Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori*
Pineapple Army, story by Kazuya Kudo & art by Naoki Urasawa
Red River by Chie Shinohara*
Sand Chronicles by Hinako Ashihara*
Skip Beat by Yoshiki Nakamura*
Sugar Sugar Rune by Moyoco Anno*
Suppli by Mari Okazaki*
Tramps Like Us (Kimi Wa Pet) by Yayoi Ogawa
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino*
W Juliet by Emura
Wallflower by Tomoko Hawakawa*
X -kai- by Asami Tohjoh
Zodiac P.I. by Natsumi Ando

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A List: Reading – Books/ Non-Work (2008)

This represents titles I either read for the first time or the first time in a long time.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are in progress or ones I plan to finish at some point.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (5)

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