READING 1997
Attached is a list of the books I read in 1997. 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
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For brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html
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Jan.
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1 Edith Wharton 2 House of Mirth AMER 20th 1 NOVEL 1
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2 Frank Baum Tik-Tok of Oz AMER 20th 2 CHILDREN 1
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3 Scott Adams 2 Dogbert's Management Handbook AMER 20th 3 HUMOR 1
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4 Herodotus 1 ***The
History (AKA -- Persian Wars) GREEK BC 1 HISTORY 1
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5 Fernando Arrabal 1 The Red Virgin SPANISH 1 NOVEL 2
Feb.
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6 Stephen Jay Gould **Full
House AMER 20th 4 SCIENCE 1 review
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7 Richard Elliott Friedman 1 Who Wrote the Bible? AMER 20th 5 HISTORY 2
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8 Alex Garland 1 The Beach AMER 20th 6 NOVEL 3
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9 Frank Baum 9 The Scarecrow of Oz AMER 20th 7 CHILDREN 2
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10 Amy Tan 3 ***Hundred
Secret Senses AMER 20th 8 NOVEL 4
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11 Seamus Heaney 1 Crediting Poetry IRISH 20th 1 ESSAY 1
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12 Robert B. Parker Walking Shadow AMER 20th 9 MYSTERY 1
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13 James Carroll 5 ** American
Requiem AMER 20th 10 BIOGRAPHY 1
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14 Richard Wilbur 2 *New and Collected Poems AMER 20th 11 POETRY 1
March
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15 Umberto Eco 3 Island of the Day Before ITALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 5
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16 Geoffrey Moore 1 ***Crossing
the Chasm AMER 20th 12 BUSINESS 1
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17 Elaine Pagels 1 The Gnostic Gospels AMER 20th 13 RELIGION/HISTORY 2
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18 John Dufresne 2 **The
Way that Water Enters Stone AMER 20th 14 SHORT STORIES 1 review
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19 John Irving **Trying
to Save Piggy Sneed AMER 20th 15 ESSAY 2 review
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20 Peter Hoeg 2 *The History of Danish Dreams DANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 6
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21 Graham Swift 2 Last Orders ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 7
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22 Frank Baum Rinkitink in Oz (outloud) AMER 20th 16 CHILDREN 3
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23 James Redfield 1 *The Celestine Prophecy AMER 20th 17 NOVEL/RELIGION
8
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24 Elaine Pagels 2 * The
Origin of Satan AMER 20th 18 RELIGION/HISTORY 3
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25 Howard Norman 2 Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad CANADIAN 1 SHORT STORIES
2
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26 Richard Selzer 6 *Raising
the Dead AMER 20th 19 BIOGRAPHY 2
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27 John Dufresne 3 **Love
Warps the Mind a Little AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 9
April
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28 Martin Seymour-Smith 1 Gnosticism: the Path of Inner Knowledge AMER
20th 21 RELIGION/HISTORY 4
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29 Evan Connell 1 The Alchymist's Journal AMER 20th 22 NOVEL 10
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30 Cherry Gilchrist 1 Theosophy: The Wisdom of the Ages AMER 20th 23 RELIGION/HISTORY
5
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31 Tom Clancy 1 Debt of Honor AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 11
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32 J.M.G. Le Clezio 1 The Prospector FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 12
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33 Richard Selzer **Imagine
a Woman AMER 20th 25 SHORT STORIES 3
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34 Steve Erickson 6 *Amnesiascope
AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 13
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35 Frank Baum 11 The Lost Princess of Oz (outloud) AMER 20th 27 CHILDREN
4
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36 David Markson 1 *Wittgenstein's
Mistress AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 14
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37 Cathleen Schine 1 Rameau's
Niece AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 15
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38 Peter Hoeg 3 The
Woman and the Ape DANISH 20th 2 NOVEL 16
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39 Cormac McCarthy 1 *Blood
Meridian AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 17 review
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40 Ursula LeGuin *Tehanu AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 18
May
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41 Milan Kundera *Slowness
CZECH 20th 1 NOVEL 19
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42 Sebastien Japrisot 2 *The Sleeping Car Murders FRENCH 20th 2 NOVEL 20
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43 Andrei Bitov 1 The Monkey Link RUSS 20th 1 NOVEL 21
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44 Frank Baum The Tin Woodman of Oz (out loud) AMER 20th 30 CHILDREN 5
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45 Margaret Atwood 2 Robber Bride CANADIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 22
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46 Peter Hoeg 4 *Borderliners
DENMARK 20th 3 NOVEL 23
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47 Joseph Roth 1 The Hotel Savoy AUSTRIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 4
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48 Kazuo Ishiguro 1 **The
Unconsoled ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 24
June
July
August
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63 Ray Bradbury I
Sing the Body Electric AMERICAN 20th 42 Short Stories 6
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64 New Yorker, Indian Fiction Issue, June 23 & 30, 1997 INDIAN 20th
1 Short Stories 7
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65 Julian Barnes Letters from London ENGLISH 20th 3 ESSAY 5
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66 Frank Baum Glinda of Oz [out loud] AMERICAN 20th 43 CHILDREN 7
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67 Donald Antrim 1 The Hundred Brothers AMERICAN 20th 44 NOVEL 27
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68 Rick Moody 1 ***Purple
America AMERICAN 20th 45 NOVEL 28
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69 David Foster Wallace 2 The
Broom of the System AMERICAN 20th 46 NOVEL 29
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70 Jonathan Franzen 1 *The
Twenty-seventh City AMERICAN 20th 47 NOVEL 30
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71 Lytton Strachey 1 Eminent Victorians ENGLISH 20th 4 BIOGRAPHY 5
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72 Orson Scott Card 4 Seventh Son AMERICAN 20th 48 NOVEL 31
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73 David Guterson 1 **Snow
Falling on Cedars AMERICAN 20th 49 NOVEL 32
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74 Jane Hamilton 2 **The
Book of Ruth AMERICAN 20th 50 NOVEL 33
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75 Howard Rheingold 2 **The
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier AMERICAN
20th BUSINESS 5 INTERNET 2
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76 Halldor Laxness 1 **Independent
People by Halldor Laxness ICELAND 20th 1 NOVEL 34
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77 Sallie Seltzer **Crazy Baby [manuscript] AMERICAN 20th 51 SCREENPLAY
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