In 2011 I read an even 60 books, a personal best, for whatever that’s worth. That bests 2009’s 58 and 2010’s 52, the year I began reading more intensively. Below is my 2011 list, in order, from January to December. Wednesday’s column (read it here) is about about my year in reading.

Mostly I read fiction, from literary to pulp, mysteries and science fiction, but there was also a smattering of nonfiction. Some authors got repeat books onto my reading list: two by Nick Hornby, three each by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Mark Twain and the pseudonymous William Arrow, four by Philip K. Dick and five by Harlan Ellison. Many others show up only once, but that doesn’t mean I might not love them.

1. “Tarzan of the Apes,” Edgar Rice Burroughs
2. “The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu,” Sax Rohmer
3. “A Tapestry of Life: The World of Millard Sheets,” Janet Blake and Tony Sheets
4. “The Polysyllabic Spree,” Nick Hornby
5. “Bright Orange for the Shroud,” John D. MacDonald
6. “Exploring Form: John Edward Svenson, An American Sculptor,” David Svenson
7, 8, 9. “Return to the Planet of the Apes Nos. 1, 2 and 3,” William Arrow
10. “The Return of Tarzan,” Edgar Rice Burroughs
11. “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” A. Conan Doyle
12. “The Return of Fu Manchu,” Sax Rohmer
13. “The Turn of the Screw,” Henry James
14. “They Live,” Jonathan Lethem
15. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” Philip K. Dick
16. “Blade Runner, A Story of the Future,” Les Martin
17. “Web of the City,” Harlan Ellison
18. “There’s a Country in My Cellar,” Russell Baker
19. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” Mark Twain
20. “California Crazy and Beyond,” Jim Heimann
21. “The Computer Connection,” Alfred Bester
22. “Comic Book Culture,” Ron Goulart
23. “Confessions of a Crap Artist,” Philip K. Dick
24. “A Case of Conscience,” James Blish
25. “Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress,” Candacy A. Taylor
26. “10 Minute Clutter Control Room by Room,” Skye Alexander
27. “The Batcave Companion,” Michael Eury and Michael Kronenberg
28. “The Book of Philip K. Dick,” Philip K. Dick
29. “The Hand of Fu Manchu,” Sax Rohmer
30. “The Beasts of Tarzan,” Edgar Rick Burroughs
31. “All Yesterdays’ Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-1971,” Clinton Heylin
32. “The Drawn Blank Series,” Bob Dylan
33. “The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground,” Peter Hogan
34. “Captain Blood,” Rafael Sabatini
35. “A Touch of Infinity,” Harlan Ellison
36. “Run for the Stars/Echoes of Thunder,” Harlan Ellison/Jack Dann, Jack C. Haldeman
37. “The Deadly Streets,” Harlan Ellison
38. “Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere,” Hank Stuever
39. “Roadside America,” John Margolies
40. “The Verse by the Side of the Road,” Frank Rowsome Jr.
41. “Lonely Avenue,” Nick Hornby
42. “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us),” Tom Vanderbilt
43. “Highway 61 Revisited,” Mark Polizzotti
44. “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock,” Sammy Hagar
45. “Blood’s a Rover,” Harlan Ellison
46. “Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb,” Philip K. Dick
47. “Red Harvest,” Dashiell Hammett
48. “Into the Beautiful North,” Luis Alberto Urrea
49. “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Across the Borderlands,” Michael Chabon
50. “The Innocents Abroad,” Mark Twain
51. “Short Stories,” Mark Twain
52. “Supreme Courtship,” Christopher Buckley
53. “Stan’s Soapbox: The Collection,” Stan Lee
54. “Dave Barry in Cyberspace,” Dave Barry
55. “The Sheltering Sky,” Paul Bowles
56. “In a Sunburned Country,” Bill Bryson
57. “Golden Apples of the Sun,” Ray Bradbury
58. “The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion,” Brian M. Kane
59. “Vineland,” Thomas Pynchon
60. “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson’s Lost Masterpiece,” Domenic Priore