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READING 1999

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1999. 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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January

1 Elmore Leonard 4 Freaky Deaky AMER 20th 1 MYSTERY 1

2 Arthur Golden ***Memoirs of a Geisha AMER20th 2 NOVEL 1

3 Benjamin Constant 1 Adolphe (en francais) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 2

4 Alexandre Dumas 5 Le Vicomte to Bragelonne: Part 1 -- Le Vicomte (second sequel to Three Musketeers) (en francais) FRENCH 19th 2 NOVEL 3

5 Robert Asprin Another Fine Myth (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 3 NOVEL 4

6 Robert Asprin Myth Conceptions (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 4 NOVEL 5

February

7 Robert Asprin Myth Directions (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 5 NOVEL 6

8 Robert Asprin Hit or Myth (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 6 NOVEL 7

9 Robert Asprin Mything Persons (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 7 NOVEL 8

10 Brett Munro 1 Alliance (at Zoetrope Screenplays) AMER 20th 8 SCREENPLAY 1

11 Kevin Scrantz 1 *Medium Rare (at Zoetrope Screenplays) AMER 20th 9 SCREENPLAY 2

12 Lee Arcuri 1 The Screen (at Zoetrope Screenplays) AMER 20th 10 SCREENPLAY 3

13 Robert Asprin Little Myth Marker (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 11 NOVEL 9

14 Alexandre Dumas 6 Le Vicomte to Bragelonne: Part 2 -- Louise de la Valliere, (second sequel to Three Musketeers) (en francais) FRENCH 19th 3 NOVEL 10

15 Jim Hartman 1 Letters (at Zoetrope Screenplays) AMER 20th 12 SCREENPLAY 4

March

16 Alexandre Dumas 7 Le Vicomte to Bragelonne: Part 3 -- Le Masque de Fer , (second sequel to the Three Musketters) (en francais) FRENCH 19th 4 NOVEL 11

17 Robert Asprin M.Y.T.H., Inc. Link (second time) (out loud) AMER 20th 13 NOVEL 11

18 Jaclyn Easton 1 StrikingItRich.com: Profiles of 23 Incredibly Successful Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of AMER 20th 14 INTERNET 1

19 William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (second time) ENGLISH 17th 1 PLAY 1

20 Ian McEwan 3 Enduring Love ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 12

21 Oscar Hijuelos 3 **Empress of the Splendid Season AMER 20th 15 NOVEL 13

22 John Gribbin 3 The Search for Superstrings AMER 20th 16 SCIENCE 1

23 Moliere 7 L'Ecole des Maris (en francais) FRENCH 17th 1 PLAY 2

24 Donald Westlake 1 The Green Eagle Score AMER 20th 17 MYSTERY 2

25 Robert Asprin 12 Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (out loud) AMER 20th 18 NOVEL 14

26 Bruce Sterling 3 Distraction AMER 20th 19 SCIFI 1

April

27 Michael Wolff 1 Burn Rate AMER 20th 20 INTERNET 2

28 Robert Asprin M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action (out loud) AMER 20th 21 NOVEL 15

29 Robert Asprin Sweet Myth-tery of Life (out loud) AMER 20th 22 NOVEL 16

30 Paul Claudel 1 Partage de Midi (en francais) FRENCH 20th 1 PLAY 3

May

31 Guy Kawaskai 1 Rules for Revolutionaries AMER 20th 23 BUSINESS 1/INTERNET 3

32 Neal Stephenson 4 ***Cryptonomicon AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 17

33 Diane Croft 1 **Holy Longing (manuscript) AMER 20th 25 POETRY 1

34 Linda Hall 4 **Island Refuge CANADIAN 20th 1 MYSTERY 3

35 Frederick Busch 1 **The Night Inspector AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 18

36 Jules Verne 1 *Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours (en francais) FRENCH 19th 5 NOVEL 19

37 Flann O'Brien 1 The Third Policeman IRISH 20th 1 NOVEL 20

38 Frederick Reuss 1 *Horace Afoot AMER 20th 27 NOVEL 21

39 David Guterson 2 **East of the Mountains AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 22

40 Paul Zindel 1 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds AMER 20th 29 PLAY 4

41 H. Rider Haggard 1 King Solomon's Mines ENGLISH 19th 1 NOVEL 23

42 Robert Aspirin The Bug Wars (out loud) AMER 20th 30 SCIFI 2

June

43 Lord Byron 3 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ENGLISH 19th 2 POETRY 2

44 Robert Parker 25 * All Our Yesterdays AMER 20th 31 NOVEL 24

45 Oscar Hijuelos 4 *** The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien AMER 20th 32 NOVEL 25

46 Cormac McCarthy 2 ***All the Pretty Horses AMER 20th 33 NOVEL 26 (review)

47 Mark Twain 18 Following the Equator AMER 19th 1 TRAVEL 1

48 Arturo Perez-Reverte 4 The Fencing Master SPANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 27

49 Susan Minot 3 Folly AMER 20th 34 NOVEL 28

50 Jack London 2 Call of the Wild (out loud) AMER 19th 2 NOVEL 29

51 Mark Twain 19 Letters from the Earth AMER 20th 34 ESSAYS 1

52 David Foster Wallace 5 **Brief Interviews with Hideous Men AMER 20th 35 SHORT STORIES 1

53 The New Yorker: The Future of American Fiction, June 21, 1999 AMER 20th 36 SHORT STORIES 2

54 Tom Robbins 5 *Another Roadside Attraction AMER 20th 37 NOVEL 30

55 Virginia Woolf 3 ***To the Lighthouse ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 31

56 Robert Parker 26 Night Passage AMER 20th 38 MYSTERY 4

July

57 Stendhal 3 Lucien Leuwen (Part 1) (en francais) FRENCH 19th 6 NOVEL 32

58 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (second time) (out loud) ENGLISH 19th 3 NOVEL 33

59 William Shakespeare Henry V (second time) ENGLISH 16th 1 PLAY 5

60 Apuleius 1 The Golden Ass ROMAN NORTH AFRICA 2nd 1 NOVEL 34

61 William Shakespeare Richard III (second time) ENGLISH 16th 2 PLAY 6

August

62 Steve Erickson 7 ***The Sea Came in at Midnight AMER 20th 39 NOVEL 35 (review)

63 Virginia Woolf 4 Jacob's Room ENGLISH 20th 3 NOVEL 36

64 Virginia Woolf 5 Orlando ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 37

65 Ray Kurzweil 1 ***The Age of Spiritual Machines AMER 20th 40 ESSAY 2

66 Fancis Fukuyama 2 **The Great Disruption AMER 20th 41 ESSAY 3

67 Cormac McCarthy 3 **The Crossing AMER 20th 42 NOVEL 38 (review)

68 Cormac McCarthy 4 ***Cities of the Plain AMER 20th 43 NOVEL 39 (review)

69 William Shakespeare King Lear (second time) ENGLISH 17th 1 PLAY 7

70 William Shakespeare The Tempest (third time) ENGLISH 17th 2 PLAY 8

71 William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (second time) ENGLISH 16th 3 PLAY 9

72 Virginia Woolf 6 ***A Room of One's Own ENGLISH 20th 5 ESSAY 4

73 ed. by Charles Baxter 1 Ploughshares, Vol. 25, Nos. 2&#, fall 1999 AMER 20th 44 MAGAZINE 1

74 Robert Graves 2 **Homer's Daughter ENGLISH 20th 6 NOVEL 40

75 Anita Shreve 1 The Pilot's Wife AMERICAN 20th 44 NOVEL 41

September

76 ed. by Ian Jack 1 Granta #65 London: the Lives of the City ENGLISH 20th 7 MAGAZINE 2

77 Michael Seltzer 1 *Behind Closed Windows (manuscript) AMERICAN 20th 45 NOVEL 42 electronic text

78 Richard Rahn 1 The End of Money AMERICAN 20th 46 ESSAY 5

79 Alexander Bulatovich Ethiopia through Russian Eyes (trans. Richard Seltzer) RUSSIAN 1 19th 1 HISTORY 1

November

80 Louise Erdrich 5 Tales of Burning Love AMERICAN 20th 47 NOVEL 43

81 Louis De Bernieres 4 The Troublesome Offspring of Guzman ENGLISH 20th 8 NOVEL 44

December

82 J. K. Rowling 1 ***Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (out loud) ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL 45 review

83 Philostratus 1 Life of Apollonius GREEK 2nd 1 BIOGRAPHY 1

84 Rex Sexton 3 **Desert Flower (mss.) AMERICAN 20th 47 NOVEL 46

85 Alexandre Dumas 8 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Volume 1 of 2 (en francais) FRENCH 19th 5 NOVEL 47

86 John Irving 10 My Movie Business AMERICAN 20th 48 BIOGRAPHY 2

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