Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
71. Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
72. Defenders: Indefensible by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, and Kevin Maguire.
73. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
74. Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley.
75. Criminal Volume 4: Bad Night by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

76. Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel. At CONvergence, the book tables were sadly outnumbered in the dealer's room by folks selling videos, costumery, and toys, but at one of the little tables there I found a copy of the original Tor edition of this book, and snapped it up. Although I've read a portion of John's short story work--including his all-hits-no-misses collection from Small Beer Press, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, I hadn't read either of his novels until now. It's a novel of millennial anxiety (set in 1999, it was originally published in 1989), a wicked blend of religious and extraterrestrial anxiety, and although the central gathering here takes place in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area and not in D.C., it was somewhat eerie to be reading this book at the same time that Glenn Beck was talking Jesus to disaffected white people on the Capitol lawn. Jimmy Gilray is a couple of notches scarier than Glenn Beck, true, and the United States that Kessel presents is in significantly worse shape than we are now, but for twenty years gone it feels pretty much right on the money. Much of Good News is darkly comic, but some of it is just plain dark, especially the character of cynic/nihilist Richard Shrike, who sets out to con Reverend Gilray in hopes of getting a story and ends up conning himself. Anyway, it's well worth a read.