READING 1974

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1974. 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. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com

For reviews of some of these books, see www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html For brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html


January

1 Mihail Bulgakov 7 The White Guard 20/1 RUSS N

2 Mikail Sholokhov 1 And Quiet Flows the Don 20/2 RUSS N

3 Maxim Gorky 4 In the World 20/3 RUSS BIO

4 Gustave Flaubert 3 La Tentation de Saint Antoine 19/1 FREN N

5 Leszek Kolakowski 1 The Key to Heaven 20/1 POL PHIL

6 Leszek Kolakowski 2 Conversations with the Devil 20/2 POL PHIL

7 Andre Oreliani 1 The Scarlet Lady 20/4 RUSS N

March 1974

8 Texas Instruments Understanding Solid-State Electronics 20/1 AMER ELEC

9 Robert Heilbronner 1 The Worldly Philosophers 20/2 AMER ECON

10 Leszek Kolakowski 3 Toward a Marxist Humanism 20/3 POL PHIL

11 Claude Levi-Strauss1 Tristes Tropiques 20/1 FREN ANTH

12 A. Bulatovich 2 S Voyskami Menelika II 20/5 RUSS HIST

13 Somerset Maugham 2 The Razor's Edge* 20/1 ENG N

May 1974

14 Jerzy Kosinski 4 The Devil Tree 20/3 POL N

15 Colin Turnbull 1 The Mountain People 20/3 AMER ANTH

16 Somerset Maugham 3 The Moon & Sixpence 20/2 ENG N

17 Maxim Gorky 5 My Universities 20/6 RUSS BIO

June 1974

18 Frank Baum 1 The Wizard of Oz 20/4 AMER N

19 Muriel Spark 1 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 20/3 ENG N

20 Alvin Toffler 1 Future Shock 20/5 AMER ES

July 1974

21 Andrei Sakharov 1 Sakharov Speaks 20/7 RUSS ES

22 Pavel Litvinov 1 The Demonstration in Pushkin Sq. 20/8 RUSS HIST

23 John Meyendorf 1 A Study of Gregory Palamas 20/9 RUSS REL

24 A. Solzhenitsyn 5 Gulag Archipelago 20/10 RUSS HIST

25 John Dos Passos 1 42nd Parallel 20/6 AMER N

26 John Dos Passos 2 1919 20/7 AMER N

27 George A. Brinkley 1 The Volunteer Army & Allied Intervention in South Russia 20/8 AMER HIST

publication of The Lizard of Oz

December 1974

28 Thomas Pynchon 3 ** Gravity's Rainbow 20/9 AMER N

29 Robert Musil 3 Unions 20/1 AUST N

30 John Hawkes 1 The Lime Twig 20/10 AMER N

31 H.G. Wells 1 Mind at the End of its Tether 20/4 ENG ES




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