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“The Penguin is one of those characters — and they are few and far between — that lives in the subconsciousness of not only America but the world,” says King, whose bibliography includes more than 100 issues of “Batman” as well as a 12-issue “Penguin” series.

A lot of queer culture is itself very sexually saturated, explained Liza Blake, an associate professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at the University of Toronto who co-created the Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography.

McMurtry’s life, like his bulging bibliography, is tough to get one’s arms around.

Clocking in at more than 700 pages, not counting a bibliography that could be its own stand-alone volume, “Madonna: A Rebel Life” uses ballast as a statement of intent, a way of telling the reader before they crack the spine that this is a subject worthy of the kind of assiduous attention given any other great 20th century artist.

Author and Ultimate Bookshelf contributing editor David Kipen digs for treasure in a bibliography of L.A. fiction — and celebrates the “ghost novels.”