READING 2003

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1 Oscar Wilde 4 Salome ENGLISH 19th 1 PLAY 1
2 Richard Seltzer Sr. 2 Human Relations in School Administration AMERICAN 20th 1 ESSAY 1
3 William Faulkner 26 Collected Stories AMERICAN 20th 2 STORIES 1
4 William Faulkner 27 Pylon AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL1
5 John Grisham 4 --- [terrible] Skipping Christmas AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 2
6 Dai Sijie 1 *** Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress CHINESE 21st 1 NOVEL 3
7 Graham Swift 3 Out of This World ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 4
8 Alice Sebold 1 The Lovely Bones AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 5
9 Alexa Albert 1 Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women AMERICAN 21st 3 ESSAY 2
10 Christopher Locke 2 The Bombast Transcripts AMERICAN 21st 4 INTERNET 1

February

11 William Faulkner 28 [???] A Fable  AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 6
12 Consuelo de Saint-Exupery 1 *The Tale of the Rose  SALVADORAN 1 20th BIOGRAPHY 1
13 Katie Roiphe 1 *Still She Haunts Me [Lewis Carroll] AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 7
14 Robert Louis Stevenson 3 A Child's Garden of Verses ENGLISH 19th 1 POETRY 1
15 Mary Shelley 1 Frankenstein ENGLISH 19th 2 NOVEL 8

March

16 Sebastian Faulk 2 On Green Dolphin Street AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 9
17 Robert Parker 32 Widow's Walk AMERICAN 21st 7 MYSTERY 1
18 Medieval Hebrew (including the Midrash and Kabbalah) [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 1 RELIGION 1
19 Samuel Rapaport 1  Tales and Maxims from the Midrash [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 1 RELIGION 2
20 Henry Fielding 4 Jonathan Wild [electronic book]  ENGLISH 18th 1 NOVEL 10
21 Jacques Casanova 15 Memoirs, volume 3E With Voltaire [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
22 David Rosenberg 1 Dreams of Being Eaten Alive: the Literary Core of the Kabbalah AMERICAN 20th  RELIGION 3
23 Israel Abrahams 1 Judaism [electronic book] AMERICAN 20th RELIGION 4

April

22 Jacques Casanova 16 Memoirs, volume 4A Adventures in the South, Depart Switzerland [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 2 BIOGRAPHY 2
23 Jacques Casanova 17 Memoirs, volume 4B, Adventures in the South, Return to Italy [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 3 BIOGRAPHY 3
24 Anonymous, Richard Burton 2 (translator) Arabian Nights (volume 2 of 16) [electronic book] ARABIAN 1 NOVEL 10
25 Enrico Cerulli 1 The Folk Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia [electronic book] ITALIAN 20th 1 ANTHROPOLOGY 1

May

26 edited by Ian Jack  Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists ENGLISH 21st 1 MAGAZINE 20th 1

June

27 Jim Harrison 1 ***The Beast God Forgot to Invent AMERICAN 21st 6 STORIES 2
28 Hari Kunzru 1 **The Impressionist  INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 11
29 Jasper Fforde 1 The Eyre Affair ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 12

July

30 Yann Martel 1 The Life of Pi  CANADIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 13
31 J.K. Rowling 5  ***Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ENGLISH 21st 2 NOVEL 14
32 Jacques Casanova 18 Memoirs, volume 4c [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 4 BIOGRAPHY 4
33 Jacques Casanova 19 Memoirs, volume 4d [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 5 BIOGRAPHY 5
34 Ambrose Bierce 1 Can Such Things Be? [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 3 STORIES 3
36 Ambrose Bierce 2 Present at a Hanging [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 4 STORIES 4
37 H. Rider Haggard 2 She [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 3 NOVEL 15
38 H. Rider Haggard 3 Ayesha (sequel to She) [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 4 NOVEL 16
39 Aimee Bender 1 The Girl in the Flammable Skirt AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 17
40 Tracy Chevalier 3 ***The Virgin Blue AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 18
41 Elizabeth McCracken 1 The Giant's House AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 19
42 Alexander McCall Smith 1 The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency SOUTH AFRICA 21st 1 NOVEL 20
43 Bret Harte 1 The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 5 STORIES 5
44 Nathaniel Hawthorne 6 The Great Stone Face [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 6 STORIES 6
45 Nathaniel Hawthorne 7 The Snow Image [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 7 STORIES 7
46 Nathaniel Hawthorne 8 Mosses from an Old Manse [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 8 STORIES 8
47 Nathaniel Hawthorne 9 Twice-Told Tales [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 9 STORIES 9
48 Elizabeth McCracken 2 Niagara Falls All Over Again AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 21
49 Ian McEwan 5 **Black Dogs ENGLISH 21st 3 NOVEL 22
50 George Woodberry 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 10 BIOGRAPHY 6
51 Jerome K. Jerome 1 Three Men in a Boat  [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 5 HUMOR 1
52 Anthony Trollope 1 Barchester Towers  [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 6 NOVEL 23
53 E.M. Forster 2 A Room with a View ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 24

August

54 Kazuo Ishiguro 4 *An Artist of the Floating World JAPANESE 20th 1 NOVEL 25
55 Charles Palliser 2 The Unburied ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 26
56 Cormac McCarthy 6 The Orchard Keeper AMERICAN 20th 5 NOVEL 27
57 John Galsworthy 1 The Man of Property ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 28
58 G.A. Henty 1 The Lion of the North [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 7 NOVEL 29

September

59 Linda Hall  7 *Steal Away CANADIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 30
60 Andrei Makine 1 Reqiem for a Lost Empire RUSSIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 31
61 Alexander Pushkin (repeat) Eugene Onegin, Nabokov translation RUSSIAN 19th 1 NOVEL 32 POEM 1
62 Jacques Casanova 20 Memoirs, volume 4e: Milan, [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 6 BIOGRAPHY 7
63 Alan Lightman 4 **Reunion AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 33
64 Jacques Casanova 21 Memoirs, volume 5a:  South of France, [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 7 BIOGRAPHY 8
65 Dan Brown 1 **The Da Vinci Code AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 34

October

66 Brady Udall 1 *Letting Loose the Hounds AMERICAN 21st 13 STORIES 10
67 Dava Sobel 1 Galileo's Daugher AMERICAN 21st 14 BIOGRPHY 9
68 Laurie Notaro 1 The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club AMERICAN 21st 15 HUMOR 1
69 Bruce Duffy 2 *Last Comes the Egg AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 35
70 Zadie Smith 2 *The Autograph Man ENGLISH 21st 3 NOVEL 36
71 Jacques Casanova 21 Memoirs, volume 5b:  To London, [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 7 BIOGRAPHY 8
72 Friedrich Schiller 3 The Robbers [electronic book] GERMAN 19th 1 PLAY 2

November

73 Jacques Casanova 22 Memoirs, volume 5c: The English, [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 8 BIOGRAPHY 9
74 Procopius 1 The Secret History BYZANTINE 6th 1 HISTORY 1
75 Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek 1 Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation TIBETAN 21st 1 RELIGION 5
76 G.A. Henty 2 *Won by the Sword [electronic book] ENGLISH 19th 8 NOVEL 37
77 Dagmar Barnouw *Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience AMERICAN 20th 6 CRITICISM 1
78 Friedrich Schiller 4 The Thirty Years War [electronic book] GERMAN 18th 1 HISTORY 2
79 Jacques Casanova 22 Memoirs, volume 5d [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 9 BIOGRAPHY 10
80 Bryce Courtenay 1 ****The Power of One SOUTH AFRICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 38
81 Frank Conroy 2 ***Body and Soul AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 39

December

82 Gregory Maguire 1 ***Wicked AMERICAN 20th 7 NOVEL 40
83 Leslie Epstein 2 San Remo Drive AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 41
84 Thomas Keneally 2 **Schindler's List AUSTRALIAN 20th 1 HISTORY 3
85 Philip Roth 4 ***The Human Stain AMERICAN 21st 18 NOVEL 42
86 Jacques Casanova 23 Memoirs, volume 5e Russia and Poland [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 10 BIOGRAPHY 11
87 Alexandre Dumas 15 The Black Tulip [electronic book] FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 43

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