READING 2002

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January

1 Orson Scott Card 6 Shadow of the Hegemon (an Ender book) AMERICAN 20th 1 SCIFI 1
2 Plutarch 2  Lives (volume 2 of 5) GREEK 1st AD 1 HISTORY 1
3 Mercy Otis Warren 6 The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (volume 1 of 3) AMERICAN 19th 1 HISTORY 2 text on Web
4 Mercy Otis Warren 7 The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (volume 2 of 3) AMERICAN 19th 2 HISTORY 3 text on Web
5 Tom Holt 1 *Olympiad AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 1
6 Mercy Otis Warren 8 The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (volume 3 of 3) AMERICAN 19th 3 HISTORY 4 text on Web
7 Penelope Fitzgerald 4 *Innocence  ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 2
8 Edith Wharton 3 *Age of Innocence AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 3
9 Allegra Goodman 1  Kaaterskill Falls AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 4

February

10 Plato 17 Critias GREEK BC 1 PHILOSOPHY1
11 Jacques Casanova 1 Memoirs Volume 1A Childhood [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
12 Plato 18 Theaetetus GREEK BC 2 PHILOSOPHY 2
13 Jacques Casanova 2 Memoirs Volume 1B A Cleric in Naples [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 2 BIOGRAPHY 2
14 Jacques Casanova 3 Memoirs Volume 1C Military Career [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 3 BIOGRAPHY 3
15 Jacques Casanova 4 Memoirs Volume 1D Return to Venice  [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 4 BIOGRAPHY 4
16 Plato 19 The Sophist GREEK BC 3 PHILOSOPHY 3
17 Jacques Casanova 5 Memoirs Volume 1E Milan and Mantua  [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 5 BIOGRAPHY 5
18 Jeanette Winterson 3 Sexing the Cherry ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 5
19 Moliere 8 Sganarelle ou Le Cocu Imaginaire FRENCH 17th 1 PLAY 1
20 Jacques Casanova 6 Memoirs Volume 2A Paris [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 6 BIOGRAPHY 6
21 Raymond Chandler 3 *Farewell, My Lovely AMERICAN 20th 3 MYSTERY 1
22 Raymond Chandler 4 *The High Window AMERICAN 20th 4 MYSTERY 2
23 Raymond Chandler 5 The Little Sister AMERICAN 20th 5 MYSTERY 3
23 Raymond Chandler 6 *The Lady in the Lake AMERICAN 20th 6 MYSTERY 4
24 Raymond Chandler 7 ****The Long Goodbye AMERICAN 20th 7 MYSTERY 5
25 Raymond Chandler 8 Playback AMERICAN 20th 8 MYSTERY 6
26 Don DeLillo 4 * White Noise AMERICAN 20th 9 NOVEL 6
27 Penelope Fitzgerald 5  *Offshore ENGLISH 20th 3 NOVEL 7

March

28 Peter Carey 1 **True History of the Kelly Gang AUSTRALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 8
29 John Dufresne 4 ***Deep in the Shade of Paradise AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 9
30 William Dubie 1 Field Notes: New and Collected Poems AMERICAN 21st 2 POETRY 1
31 Penelope Fitzgerald 6 **Human Voices ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 8
32 Penelope Fitzgerald 7 The Means of Escape ENGLISH 21st 1 SHORT STORIES 1
33 Jeanette Winterson 4 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ENGLISH 20th 5 NOVEL 9
34 Howard Norman 3 The Museum Guard AMERICAN 20th 10 NOVEL 10
35 Iris Murdoch 4 *The Red and the Green ENGLISH 20th 6 NOVEL 11
36 Penelope Fitzgerald 8 **At Freddie's ENGLISH 20th 7 NOVEL 12
37 John Bayley 1 Elegy for Iris ENGLISH 20th 8 BIOGRAPHY 7
38 Elizabeth Cook 1 Achilles AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 13

April

39 Penelope Fitzgerald 9 *The Golden Child ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL 14
40 Penelope Fitzgerald 10 *The Blue Flower ENGLISH 20th 10 NOVEL 15
41 Barbara Pym 1 Jane and Prudence ENGLISH 20th 11 NOVEL 16
42 Ian McEwan 4 ***Atonement ENGLISH 21st 2 NOVEL 17
43 Iris Murdoch 5 Sandcastle ENGLISH 20th 12 NOVEL 18
44 Ursula Le Guin 11 *The Telling AMERICAN 20th 11 NOVEL 19
45 Ursula Le Guin 12 **The Other Wind AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 20
46 Ursula Le Guin 13 Rocannon's World AMERICAN 20th 12 NOVEL 21
47 Ursula Le Guin 14 Planet of Exile AMERICAN 20th 13 NOVEL 22
48 Ursula Le Guin 15 City of Illusions AMERICAN 20th 14 NOVEL 23
49 Ethan Canin 4 ***Carry Me Across the Water AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 24
50 Jeanette Winterson 5 *Written on the Body ENGLISH 20th 13 NOVEL 25
51 Jeanette Winterson 6 Gut Symmetries ENGLISH 20th 14 NOVEL 26

May

52 Jeanette Winterson 7 Art and Lies ENGLISH 20th 15 NOVEL 27
53 Paul Cartledge 1 Spartan Reflections ENGLISH 21st 3 HISTORY 5
54 Plutarch 3 Plutarch's Lives (Volume 3 of 5) GREEK 1st 2 HISTORY 6
55 Richard Burton 1 (translator) Arabian Nights (volume 1 of 16) [electronic book] ARABIAN 10th 1 NOVEL 28
56 Jacques Casanova 7 Memoirs Volume 2B Venice [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 7 BIOGRAPHY 8
57 Robert Asprin 13 Myth-ion Improbable AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 29
58 Eoin Colfer 2 Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 30
59 Plutarch 4 Plutarch's Lives (Volume 4 of 5) GREEK 1st 3 HISTORY 7
60 Carson McCullers 1 ***The Heart is a Lonely Hunter AMERICAN 20th 15 NOVEL 30
61 Carson McCullers 2 Reflections in a Golden Eye AMERICAN 20th 16 NOVEL 31
62 Carson McCullers 3 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe AMERICAN 20th 17 NOVEL 32
63 Aristophanes   Lysistrata (second time) GREEK 5th BC PLAY 2

June

64 Carson McCullers 4 The Member of the Wedding AMERICAN 20th 18 NOVEL 33
65 Oscar Hijuelos **5 A Simple Habana Melody AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 34
66 Carson McCullers 5 Clock Without Hands AMERICAN 20th 19 NOVEL 35
67 Ethan Canin 5 For Kings and Planets AMERICAN 20th 20 NOVEL 36
68 Plutarch 5 Plutarch's Lives (Volume 5 of 5) GREEK 1st 4 HISTORY 8

finished first draft of novel Bris, June 26, 2002

69 Dawn Powell 1 Dance Night AMERICAN 20th 21 NOVEL 37
70 Charles Dickens 11 American Notes for General Circulation ENGLISH 19th 1 HISTORY 9

July

71 Adele Geras 1 Troy ENGLISH 21st 4 NOVEL 38
72 Margaret Atwood 3 ***The Blind Assassin CANADIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 39
73 A.S. Byatt 4 ***The Virgin in the Garden ENGLISH 20th 16 NOVEL 40
74 Michael Crichton 3 Time Line AMERICAN 20th 22 NOVEL 41
75 Tom Stoppard 3 Arcadia ENGLISH 20th 17 PLAY 3
76 Sarah Pomeroy 1 Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity AMERICAN 20th 23 HISTORY 10
77 Richard Byers 1 The Winning of Andromache AMERICAN 20th 24 NOVEL 42
78 Heinrich von Kleist 2 Penthesilea GERMAN 18th 1 PLAY 4
79 Jacques Casanova 8 Memoirs, volume 2C, Convent Affairs [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 8 BIOGRAPHY 8
80 Iain Pears 1 ****The Dream of Scipio ENGLISH 21st 3 NOVEL 43
81 Charles Kingsley 1 Alexandria and Her Schools [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 2 HISTORY 11
82 Edward Gibbon 1 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1 of 6 [electronic book] ENGLISH 18th 1 HISTORY 12
83 Oscar Hijuelos 6 **Mr. Ives' Christmas AMERICAN 20th 26 NOVEL 44
84 Charles Dickens 12 Barnaby Rudge [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 3 NOVEL 45
85 Charles Dickens 13 ***David Copperfield [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 4 NOVEL 46
86 Jacques Casanova 9 Memoirs, volume 2D, The False Nun [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 9 BIOGRAPHY 9

August

87 Borislav Pekic 1 **The Time of Miracles YUGOSLAV 20th 1 NOVEL 47
88 Tom Stoppard 4 The Real Thing ENGLISH 20th 18 PLAY 4
89 Tom Stoppard 5 **Indian Ink ENGLISH 20th 19 PLAY 5
90 Tom Stoppard 6 Hapgood ENGLISH 20th 20 PLAY 6
91 Iris Murdoch 6 **The Sea, the Sea ENGLISH 20th 21 NOVEL 48
92 Henrik Ibsen 2 A Doll's House NORWEGIAN 19th 1 PLAY 7
93 Henrik Ibsen 3 Hedda Gabler NORWEGIAN 19th 2 PLAY 8
94 Italo Svevo 1 Confessions of Zeno ITALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 49
95 Jacques Casanova 10 Memoirs, volume 2E, Under the Leads [electronic book]  ITALIAN 18th 10 BIOGRPHY 10
96 Henry Miller 1 Tropic of Cancer AMERICAN 20th 27 NOVEL 50

September

97 Henrik Ibsen 4 Rosmersholm NORWEGIAN 19th 3 PLAY 9
98 Jacques Casanova 11 Memoirs, volume 3A Paris and Holland  [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 11 BIOGRAPHY 11
99 A Matter of Time, special issue of Scientific American, Sept. 2002 AMERICAN 21st 7 MAGAZINE 1
100 Edward Gibbon 1 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 2 of 6 [electronic book] ENGLISH 18th 2 HISTORY 13
101 Gore Vidal 2 **Julian AMERICAN 20th 28 NOVEL 51
102 Peter Brown 1 Augustine of Hippo AMERICAN 20th 29 BIOGRAPHY 12  RELIGION 1
103 Gore Vidal 3 Myra Breckinridge AMERICAN 20th 30 NOVEL 52

October
104 Iain Pears 2 The Raphael Affair ENGLISH 20th 22 NOVEL 53
105 David Weinberger 2 Small Pieces Loosely Joined AMERICAN 21st 7 INTERNET 1 review
106 Richard Ellman 1  ***James Joyce AMERICAN 20th 23 BIOGRAPHY 13 CRITICISM 1
107 Edward Gibbon 1 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 3 of 6 [electronic book] ENGLISH 18th 3 HISTORY 14

November
108 Iain Pears 3 ***An Instance of the Fingerpost ENGLISH 20th 23 NOVEL 54
109 Howard Rheingold 3 ****Smart Mobs AMERICAN 21st 8 INTERNET 2 review
110 Tracy Chevalier 2 ** Falling Angels 21st ENGLISH 4 NOVEL 55
111 Michel Faber 1  The Crimson and the White 21st ENGLISH 5 NOVEL 56
112 Alain de Botton 6 ** The Art of Travel 21st ENGLISH 6 ESSAY 1
113 Orson Scott Card 7 Shadow Puppets 21st AMERICAN 9 NOVEL 57

December
114 Haruki Murakami 1 The Elephant Vanishes 20th JAPANESE 1 SHORT STORIES 2
115 Haruki Murakami 2 **The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 20th JAPANESE 2 NOVEL 58
116 John Grisham 3 The Summons 21st AMERICAN 10 NOVEL 59
117 Isaiah Berlin [second time] The Hedgehog and the Fox 20th ENGLISH 24 ESSAY 2
118 Jacques Casanova 12 Memoirs, volume 3B Return to Paris  [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 12 BIOGRAPHY 12
119 Jacques Casanova 13 Memoirs, volume 3C Holland and Germany [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 13 BIOGRAPHY 13
120 Saki (H.H. Munro) 1 The Best of Saki (chosen by Graham Greene) ENGLISH 20th 25 SHORT STORIES 3
121 Oscar Wilde 3 A Woman of No Importance ENGLISH 19th 5 PLAY 10
122 Jacques Casanova 14 Memoirs, volume 3D Switzerland [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 14 BIOGRAPHY 14
123 Richard Seltzer, Sr. 1 Life and Times (autobiography) AMERICAN 20th 31 BIOGRAPHY 15

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