Josie and Robin's Books of the Year
2017 End of Year Special Part 1In the first instalment of our multi part end of year specials Josie and Robin chat about the best books they’ve read this year. Josie’s got some poetry and short book recommendations and Robin’s got some horror books and has finally read a Jean Rhys book. Also Nat Metcalfe pops in to give us his top comics of the year.
Listen
Apple Podcasts * RSS * SoundCloud * Spotify
Reading List
Robin recommends:
Acts of Creation by Arthur Koestler
The Case of the Midwife Toad by Arthur Koestler
eYE Marty by Marty Feldman
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Watling Street by John Higgins
Stranger Than We Can Imagine by John Higgins
The New View Over Atlantis by John Michell
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball
Critical Mass by Philip Ball
A Contract With God by Will Eisner
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
X’ed out by Charles Burns
Pagans Progress by Michael Dames
Murmurs of Doubt by Rebecca Fox
How To Be Reasonable by Rebecca Fox
The Worm and the Bird by Coralie Pickford-Smith
A Suggestion of Ghosts edited by Johnny Mains
Dead Funny and Dead Funny Encore edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
But Is it Art? by Cynthia Freeland
Selfie by Will Storr
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Carr
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
A Galaxy of Her Own by Libby Jackson
Thought X edited by Ra Page and Rob Appleby
Sometimes These Words Just Don’t Have to be Said by Richard Houghton
Josie recommends:
The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Bravado by Scottee
Swims by Elizabeth Jane Burnett
How the Body Works the Dark by Derrick Brown
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart
Days of Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
Threads from the Refugee Crisis by Kate Evans
Glacial Period by Nicolas De Crecy
Horror Films by Alan Frank
No-one Cares About Your New Thing by Jon Osborne
His Blood Project by Graeme Macrae Burnett
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Good night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World by Kate Pankhurst
Nat Metcalfe recommends:
A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
The Artist by Anna Haifisch
Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker
Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Fred the Clown in The Iron Duchess by Roger Langridge
Triggerman by Walter Hill
Black Widow by Mark Said and Chris Samnee
Spy Seal by Rich Tommaso
Mr Higgins Comes Home by Mike Mignola
Berserker by Rick Lovered

Black Widow is by Mark Waid (I couldn’t find it under Said) 🙂