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READING 1985

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1985. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html

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Jan.

1 Robert Asprin 1 Another Fine Myth 20/1 AMER SF1

Feb. 1985

2 Robert Asprin 2 Myth Conceptions 20/2 AMER SF2

March 1985

3 Russell Hoban 2 **Riddley Walker 20/1 ENG N1

4 Laura Wilder 2 Little House on the Prairie 20/3 AMER N2

5 V.S. Naipul 1 Guerrillas 20/1CARRIB N3

6 Fredrick Pohl 3 Heechee Rendezvous 20/4 AMER SF3

April 1985

7 John Gribbins 1 In Search of Schroedinger's Cat 20/5 AMER SC1

May 1985

8 Robert Parker Valediction 20/6 AMER MY1

9 Frank Herbert The Lazarus Effect 20/7 AMER SF4

July 1985

10 Georg Lukacs Essays on Thomas Mann 20/1 HUNG CR1

August 1985

11 D.H. Thomas 4 Birthstone 20/2 ENG N4

12 ed. Jane Shore & Ellen Wilbur Ploughshares Vol. 10 No. 4 20/8 AMER MAG1

13 Michael Ende 1 The Neverending Story* 20/1 GER N5

14 James D. Watson 1 The Double Helix 20/3 ENG SC2

15 John Hersey 3 A Single Pebble 20/9 AMER N6

16 Yukio Mishima 1 Thirst for Love 20/1 JAP N7

17 Joyce Cary 1 The Horse's Mouth* 20/4 ENG N8

18 Robert M. Wald 1 Space, Time and Gravity 20/10 AMER SC3

19 James Purdy 1 Jeremy's Version 20/11 AMER N9

20 Eugene O'Neill 3 Emperor Jones 20/12 AMER PL1

21 Lillian Hellman 1 Little Foxes 20/13 AMER PL2

22 Jane Yolen 1 The Boy Who Spoke Chimp 20/14 AMER J1

23 John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat 20/15 AMER N10

24 Sean O'Casey 1 Juno and the Paycock 20/1 IRISH PL3

25 Sean O'Casey 2 The Plough and the Stars 20/2 IRISH PL4

26 Eugene O'Neill 4 Ah, Wilderness 20/16 AMER PL5

27 Eugene O'Neill 5 A Touch of the Poet 20/17 AMER PL6

28 Eugene O'Neill 6 Hughie 20/18 AMER PL7

29 Eugene O'Neill 7 A Moon for the Misbegotten 20/19 AMER PL8

30 Eugene O'Neill 8 Long Day's Journey into Night 20/20 AMER PL9

31 Eugene O'Neill 9 Mourning Becomes Electra 20/21 AMER PL10

32 J.R. Capablanca Chess Fundamentals 20/1 CUBA CH1

33 Amos Oz My Michael 20/1 ISR N11

34 Robert Asprin 3 Myth Directions 20/22 AMER SF5

Sept. 85

35 Bernard Malamud 2 The Natural* 20/23 AMER N12

36 Robert Asprin 4 Hit or Myth 20/24 AMER SF6

37 Bernard Malamud 3 God's Grace 20/25 AMER N13

38 Bernard Malamud 4 Dubin's Lives 20/26 AMER N14

39 Bernard Malamud 5 The Tenants 20/27 AMER N15

Oct. 85

40 Jayne Anne Phillips 1 Machine Dreams 20/28 AMER N16

41 Jayne Anne Phillips 2 Black Tickets 20/29 AMER ST1

42 Bernard Malamud 6 The Magic Barrel 20/30 AMER ST2

43 Cynthia Ozick 1 The Pagan Rabbi 20/31 AMER ST3

44 Bernard Malamud 7 Rembrandt's Hat 20/32 AMER ST4

Nov. 85

45 Madaline L'Engle 1 A Wrinkle in Time 20/33 AMER J2

46 Douglas Adams 4 So Long, & Thanks for All the Fish 20/5 ENG SF7

47 Tobias Wolff 1 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs 20/34 AMER ST5

48 Charles Dickens Great Expectations* 19/1 ENG N17

49 Steven Brust 1 Jhereg 20/35 AMER SF8

Dec. 85

50 Robert Penn Warren At Heaven's Gate 20/36 AMER N18

51 Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird 20/37 AMER N19

52 Jerzy Kosinski Pinball 20/1 POL N20

53 Jerzy Kosinski Blind Date 20/2 POL N21

54 Charles Dickens The Chimes 19/2 ENG N22

56 Whatever Happened to Lady Chatterly's Lover? 20/38 AMER HU1

57 Dave Barry 3 Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead 20/39 AMER HU2



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