READING 1992

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1992. 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 Isaac Asimov Foundation and Earth [2nd time] 1 AMER SF1

2 Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus 2 AMER N1

3 Oscar Hijuelos 2 Our House in the Last World 3 AMER N2

4 Aleksander Kostyev 1 40 Lessons for the Club Player 1 RUSS CH1

5 Marvin Minsky 1 **** The Society of Mind 4 AMER SC1

6 Milorad Pavic 2 Landscape Painted with Tea 1 YUGO N3

7 Roberta Kalechofsky Bodmin 1349 4 AMER N4

8 Peter Senge 1 The Fifth Discipline 5 AMER BUS1

Feb.

9 Michael Crichton 2 Jurassic Park 6 AMER N5

10 Alexander Bulatovich, From Entotto to the River Baro (translated from Russ.) 2 RUSS HIS1

March

11 Charles Fuller 1 A Soldier's Play 7 AMER PL1

12 Thomas Heggen & Mister Roberts 8 AMER PL2

Joshua Logan 1

13 Arthur Miller A View from the Bridge 9 AMER PL3

14 Robert Asprin Myth Inc. in Action 10 AMER N6

April

15 Bill Eidson 1 Dangerous Waters 11 AMER N7

16 Bill Eidson 2 Deadly Games (mss.) 12 AMER N8

17 Derek Freeman 1 Margaret Mead & Samoa 13 AMER AN1

18 Debby Mayer 1 Literary Agents 14 AMER ES1

July

19 William Gibson 1 Neuromancer 1 CAN SF2

20 Howard Rheingold 1 Virtual Reality 16 AMER SC2

21 William Gibson 2 & Bruce Sterling 1 **The Difference Engine 2 CAN SF3

22 William Gibson 3 Mona Lisa Overdrive 3 CAN SF4

23 Ian Fleming 1 From Russia with Love 1 ENG N9

August

24 Brendan Kehoe 1 Zen and the Art of the Internet 17 AMER COM1

25 Kama Sutra 1 IND

26 Lucian 1 Satirical Sketches 1 GREEK

27 Lucian 2 Selected Writings 2 GREEK

September

27 Norman Rush 1 Mating 18 AMER N10

28 Steven Zaillian Searching for Bobby Fischer (screen play) 19 AMER SP1

October

29 Richard Powers 3 ****The Gold Bug Variations 20 AMER N11

November

30 P.D. Ouspensky 1 The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution 3 RUSS ES2

31 Julian Barnes 4 Talking It Over 2 ENG N12

32 Julian Barnes 5 Metroland 3 ENG N13

December

33 Graham Swift 1 ****Waterland 4 ENG N14

34 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ***Flow 21 AMER ES3

35 Alexander Bulatovich With the Armies of Menelik II 19 RUSS H2 (translated from Russian)




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