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READING 1995

Attached is a list of the books I read in 2001. 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 Joseph Conrad ***Victory ENG 20th 1 NOVEL 1

2 Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest ENG 20th 2 SHORT STORIES 1

3 Berthold Brecht Galileo GER 20th 1 PLAY

Feb.

4 Joseph Conrad Secret Sharer ENG 20th 3 NOVEL 2

5 Joseph Conrad The End of the Tether ENG 20th 4 NOVEL 3

March

6 Eduard Morike Mozart's Journey to Prague GER 19th 1 NOVEL4

7 Danilo Kis The Encyclopedia of the Dead YUGO 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 2

8 Calvin and Hobbes AMER 20th1 HUMOR1

9 Ethan Canin 2 ***Blue River AMER 20th2 NOVEL 5

10 Oliver Sacks 1 ***An Anthropologist on Mars AMER 20th3 ESSAYS1

April

11 William Saroyan 1 ***The Human Comedy AMER 20th4 NOVEL 6

12 Richard Selzer ***Down from Troy AMER 20th5 AUTOBIO 1

13 Nicholas Negroponte 1 ***Being Digital AMER 20th6 ESSAY1

May

14 Lawrence Norfolk 1 Lempriere's Dictionary ENG 20th 5 NOVEL 7

15 Stanislaw Lem Memoirs Found in a Bathtub POL 20th 1 NOVEL 8

16 Fukuyama 1 ***** The End of History and the Last Man AMER 20th 8 ESSAY2

June

17 Nicholson Baker 3 ***Fermata AMER 20th 9 NOVEL 9

18 Howard Norman 1 ***The Bird Artist AMER 20th 10 NOVEL 10

19 Isabel Allende 1 Of Love and Shadows CHILE 20th 1 NOVEL 11

20 Jane Hamilton 1 ****A Map of the World AMER 20th 11 NOVEL 12

21 John Barth Chimera AMER 20th 12 NOVEL 13

July

22 Eudora Welty 2 ***One Writer's Beginnings AMER 20th 13 ESSAY 3

23 Richard Bear 1 **Desire for the Land AMER 20th 14 POETRY 1

24 D.M. Thomas Selected Poems ENG 20th 6 POETRY 2

25 Nicholson Baker ****Room Temperature AMER 20th 15 NOVEL 14

26 Richard Powers 5 ***Galatea 2.2 AMER 20th 16 NOVEL 15

27 Nicholson Baker ***U and I AMER 20th 17 NOVEL 16

28 Frank Baum Land of Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 18 NOVEL 17

29 Herman Melville ***Bartleby AMER 19th 1 NOVEL 18

30 Herman Melville **The Encantadas AMER 19th 2 NOVEL 19

31 Herman Melville ****Benito Cereno AMER 19th 3 NOVEL 20

32 Frank Baum Ozma of Oz [send time, aloud] AMER 20th 19 NOVEL 21

33 Neal Stephenson ***Snow Crash AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 22

August

34 Ellen Gilchrist **Light Can Be Both Wave and Partice AMER 20th 21 SHORT STORIES 3

35 Nayantara Sahgal ***Mistaken Identity INDIA 20th 1 NOVEL 23

36 James Hogan Out of Time AMER 20th 22 NOVEL 24

37 Herman Melville The Confidence Man AMER 19th 4 NOVEL 25

38 Milan Kundera **The Art of the Novel CZECH 20th 1 ESSAY4

39 John Gardner Grendel AMER 20th 23 NOVEL 26

40 Frank Baum Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 27

41 James Hogan *Realtime Interrupt AMER 20th 25 NOVEL 28

42 Frank Baum The Road to Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 29

September

43 Stanley G. Crawford 1 *Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine AMER 20th 27 NOVEL 30

44 Naguib Mahfouz 1 **The Journey of Ibn Fattouma EGYPTIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 31

45 Thomas Williams 1 *****Leah, New Hampshire AMER 20th 28 SHORT STORIES 4

October

46 John Irving ***A Son of the Circus AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 32

47 Robert Asprin Sweet Myth-tery of Life AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 33

48 Kristin McCloy 1 Some Girls AMER 20th 31 NOVEL 34

49 Carol Shields 1 ***** The Stone Diaries AMER 20th 32 NOVEL 35

November

50 Marta Morazzoni 2 *****The Invention of Truth ITAL 20th 1 NOVEL 36

51 T. Coraghessan Boyle 1 ***Greasy Lake AMER 20th 33 SHORT STORIES 5

52 D.M. Thomas ***Eating Pavlova ENG 20th 7 NOVEL 37

December

53 Evelyn Lau 1 Fresh Girls CANDIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 6

54 John Dufresne 1 *****Louisiana Power and Light AMER 20th 34 NOVEL 38

55 Jack Finney 2 From Time to Time AMER 20th 35 NOVEL 39

56 Louise Edrich 4 *****The Bingo Palace AMER 20th 36 NOVEL 40

57 Louis de Bernieres 1 *****Corelli's Mandolin ENG 20th 8 NOVEL 41

58 J.M. Coetzee 1 The Master of Petersburg S.AFRICA 20th 1 NOVEL 42

59 Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County AMER 20th 37 NOVEL 43

60 Ethan Canin 3 **The Palace Thief AMER 20th 38 SHORT STORIES 7

61 Richard Dawkins 1 ***River Out of Eden ENG 20th 9 ESSAY 5




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