READING 1982

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1982. 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


Jan.

1 V.C. Andrews 1 Flowers in the Attic 20/1 AMER N1

2 E.L. Doctorow 1 Ragtime 20/2 AMER N2

3 Saul Bellow 4 The Victim 20/3 AMER N3

4 Doris Lessing 1 Martha Quest 20/1 RHOD N4

Feb. 1982

5 Doris Lessing 2 A Proper Marriage 20/2 RHOD N5

6 James Carroll 3 Fault Lines 20/4 AMER N6

7 Theodore Dreiser 2 Sister Carrie* 20/5 AMER N7

8 John Updike 3 Rabbit Run* 20/6 AMER N8

9 Frank Baum 4 Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz 20/7 AMER J1

10 Iris Murdoch 2 The Unicorn 20/1 ENG N9

March 1982

11 John Updike 4 Rabbit Redux* 20/8 AMER N10

12 D.H. Thomas 1 The White Hotel 20/2 ENG N11

13 Martin Smith 1 Gorky Park 20/9 AMER N12

14 Dan Wakefield (ed.) Ploughshares Vol. 7, No. 3-4 20/10 AMER MA1

15 Stanislaw Lem 2 The Investigation 20/1 POL SF1

16 Stanislaw Lem 3 The Invincible 20/2 POL SF2

17 Czeslaw Milosz 1 The Captive Mind 20/3 POL ES1

18 Thomas Mann The Holy Sinner 20/1 GER N13

April 1982

19 Alvin Toffler 2 The Third Wave 20/11 AMER ES2

20 Doris Lessing 3 A Ripple from the Storm 20/3 RHOD N13

21 Frank Baum 5 The Road to Oz 20/12 AMER J2

May 1982

22 Alexander Pushkin 1 Eugene Onegin 19/1 RUSS N14

June 1982

23 Robert Penn Warren 8 Rumor Verified (Poems) 20/13 AMER P1

24 Robert Penn Warren 9 Being Here (Poems) 20/14 AMER P2

25 Roland Barthes Sade/Fourier/Loyola 20/1 FREN CR1

July 1982

26 P.N. Krasnov 1 From Double Eagle to Red Flag (Vol. I) 20/1 RUSS N15

27 Robert Parker 1 Looking for Rachel Wallace 20/15 AMER MY1

Aug. 1982

28 Robert Parker 2 Early Autumn 20/16 AMER MY2

29 James Hogan 7 Voyage from Yesteryear 20/3 ENG SF3

30 H.P. Lovecraft 1 At the Mountains of Madness 20/17 AMER SF4

31 Stanislaw Lem 4 Return to the Stars 20/4 POL SF5

32 Doris Lessing 5 Four-Gated City 20/4 RHOD N16

33 Frank Herbert 8 God, Emperor of Dune 20/18 AMER SF7

Sept. 1982

34 William Styron 3 ***Sophie's Choice* 20/19 AMER N17

35 Robert Ludlum 1 The Matarese Circle 20/20 AMER N18

36 John Irving 4 Hotel New Hampshire 20/21 AMER N19

Oct. 1982

37 D.M. Thomas 2 The Flute Player 20/4 ENG N20

38 James Clavell 3 Noble House 20/22 AMER N21

39 Ursula LeGuin 5 The Language of Darkness 20/23 AMER ES3

Nov. 1982

40 Leonid Ouspensky 1 Theology of the Icon 20/2 RUSS REL1

41 Tracy Kidder 1 The Soul of a New Machine 20/24 AMER COM1




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