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READING 1996

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1996. 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 Carol Shields 2 The Box Garden CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1

2 The New Yorker, Fiction Issue, 12/25/95 AMER 20th 2 MAG 1

Feb.

3 Neal Stephenson 2 **Zodiac AMER 20th 3 NOVEL 2

4 T. Coraghessan Boyle 2 East is East AMER 20th 4 NOVEL 3

5 Alan Lightman 2 **Good Benito AMER 20th 5 NOVEL 4

6 Pete Dexter 1 **The Paperboy AMER 20th 6 NOVEL 5

7 Neal Stephenson 3 *** The Diamond Age AMER 20th 7 NOVEL 6

8 Jaan Kross 1 The Czar's Madman ESTONIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 7

March

9 Peter Hoeg 1 ***Smilla's Sense of Snow DANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 8

April

10 T. Corghessan Boyle 3 The Road to Wellville AMER 20th 8 NOVEL 9

11 Stephen King 1 Carrie AMER 20th 9 NOVEL 10

May

12 John Barnes 1 Mother of Storms AMER 20th 10 NOVEL 11

13 RWB Lewis The Jameses AMER 20th 11 BIO 1

June

14 Herman Melville Typee AMER 19th 1 NOVEL 12

15 Herman Melville Omoo AMER 19th 2 NOVEL 13

16 Sallie Seltzer 3 The Magazine AMER 20th 12 SCREEN 1

17 Allen Kurzweil 1 ***A Case of Curiosities AMER 20th 13 NOVEL 14

18 William James 2 ****Pragmatism AMER 20th 14 PHIL 1

19 Ursula K. Le Guin **A Fisherman of the Inland Sea AMER 20th 15 SCIFI 1

20 David Huddle 1 **Intimates AMER 20th 16 SHORT STORIES 1

21 W.P. Kinsella *The Dixon Cornbelt League CANADIAN 20th 2 SHORT STORIES 2

22 Josef Skvorecky 1 *The End of Lieutenant Boruvka CZECH 20th 1 NOVEL 15

23 Edmund Wilson 2 **Axel's Castle AMER 20th 18 CRITICISM 1

July

24 Ann Tyler 2 ***Ladder of Years [the ending doesn't work] AMER20th 19 NOVEL 16

25 Ben Mezrich 1 *Threshold AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 17

26 David Foster Wallace **1 Infinite Jest AMER 20th 21 NOVEL 18 (review)

27 Josef Skorecky 2 **The Miracle Game CZECH 20th 2 NOVEL 19

August

28 Graham Greene 2 **Our Man in Havana ENG 20th 1 NOVEL 20

29 Graham Greene 3 *The Honorary Consul ENG 20th 2 NOVEL 21

30 Graham Greene 4 The Heart of the Matter ENG 20th 3 NOVEL 22

31 Graham Greene 5 The Shipwrecked ENG 20th 4 NOVEL 23

32 Gertrude Stein 1 Three Lives AMER 20th 22 STORIES 3

33 Joseph Heller 2 Closing Time AMER 20th 23 NOVEL 24

34 Stephen King Green Mile #1 AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 25

35 Sebastian Japrisot 1 ***A Very Long Engagement FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 26

36 Mark Helprin 1 **Memoir from an Antproof Case AMER 20th 25 NOVEL 27

37 Maxine Hong Kingston 1 **Tripmaster Monkey AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 28

38 Scott Adams 1 **The Dilbert Principle AMER 20th 27 HUMOR 1

39 Tom Robbins ***Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 29

September

40 T. Coraghessan Boyle 4 **Water Music AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 30

41 Frank Baum The Emerald City of Oz [out loud] AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 31

42 Granta 54 -- Best of Young American Novelists AMER 20th 31 MAG 2

October

43 John Updike **The Centaur AMER 20th 32 NOVEL 32

44 Robert Penn Warren ***Talking With Robert Penn Warren (ed. Watkins et al.) AMER 20th 33 CRIT 1

November

45 T. Coraghessan Boyle 5 *World's End AMER 20th 34 NOVEL 33

46 Gail Godwin 1 ***The Good Husband AMER 20th 35 NOVEL 34

47 Heinrich Boll 1 The Clown GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 35

48 Nadine Gordimer 1 None to Accompany Me S. AFRICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 36

49 Frank Baum The Patchwork Girl of Oz [out loud] AMER 20th 36 NOVEl 37

December

50 Michael Ondaatje 1 ***The English Patient 20th SRI LANKA 1 CANADIAN 3 NOVEL 38

51 Tom Robbins 3 *Jitterbug Perfume AMER 20th 37 NOVEL 39

52 David Quammen 3 ***Song of the Dodo AMER 20th 38 BIOLOGY 1

53 Steve Erickson 5 ***Arc d'X AMER 20th 39 NOVEL 40

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