READING 1989

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1989. 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 Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard 20/1 AMER N1

March

2 Gilbert Adair 1 The Holy Innocents 20/2 AMER N2

3 Harrison Salisbury 1 Black Night, White Snow 20/3 AMER HIS1

April

4 Stephen Hawking 1 A Brief History of Time 20/1 ENG SCI1

May

5 John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany 20/4 AMER N3

June

6 Larry McMurtry 1 Texasville 20/5 AMER N4

7 W.P. Kinsella 1 The Iowa Baseball Confederacy 20th CANADIAN N5

8 W.P. Kinsella 2 Shoeless Joe 20th CANADIAN N6

9 Gabriel Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera 20/1 COL N7

10 Isaac Asimov Prelude to Foundation 20/8 AMER SF8

July

11 Isaac Asimov Foundation and Earth 20/9 AMER SF2

12 Fred Will 1 Thresholds and Testimonies 20/10 AMER ES1

13 Carl Huffakker 1 Cowboy and Cossack 20/11 AMER N8

14 Arpad Elo 1 Ratings of Chessplayers 20/12 AMER ES2

15 James Hogan 10 Minds, Machines, & Evolution 20/13 AMER ST1

16 John Steinbeck East of Eden 20/14 AMER N9

September

17 Chris Prouty 1 Empress Taitu & Menikek II 20/15 AMER HIS1

18 Richard Coe 1 Samuel Beckett 20/1 AUST CRI1

19 James Carroll ed. Ploughshares Vol. 15, No. 2&3 20/16 AMER MAG1

20 Maura Stanton ed. Ploughshares Vol. 15, No. 1 20/17 AMER MAG2

October

21 Jane Yolen Guide to Writing for Children 20/18 AMER ES3

22 Humphrey Carpenter Tolkien 20/2 ENG BIO1

23 Salman Rushdie 1 The Satanic Verses 20/1 IND N10

24 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 20/19 AMER N11

November

25 James Gleick 1 Chaos 20/20 AMER SCI2

December

26 Milorad Pavic 1 Dictionary of the Khazars 20/1 YUGO N12

27 Slawomir Mrozkek 1 Vatzlav 20/1 CZECH PL1



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