Opus Authors

• Contemporary,
• four or more published books,
• I've read all or nearly all of them, and
• many are among my favorites.

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

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Richard Powers

• ***Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance published 1985, read 1988
• *Prisoner's Dilemma published 1988, read 1990
• *****The Goldbug Variations published 1991, read 1992
• Operation Wandering Soul published 1993, read 1994
• ***Galatea 2.2 published 1995, read 1995
• ****Gain published 1998, read 1998 review
• ** Plowing the Dark published 2000, read 2000 review

• ***How Proust Can Change Your Life published 1997, read 1998 review
• *Kiss and Tell published 1995, read 1998
• **The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel published 1994, read 1998
• *On Love published 1993, read 1998
• **The Consolations of Philosophy published 2000, read 2000

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone published 1997, read 1999
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets published 1999, read 2000
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban published 1999, read 2000
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire published 2000, read 2000

Still under construction

John Irving

• The World According to Garp read 1978
• The Water-Method Man read 1979
• 158-Pound Marriage read 1979
• Hotel New Hampshire, read 1982
• Cider House Rules read 1986
• Prayer for Owen Meany read 1989
• A Son of the Circus read 1995
• Trying to Save Piggy Sneed read 1997 review
• A Widow for One Year read 1998 review
• My Movie Business read 1999
• (not yet read = Setting the Bears Free)

• All the Pretty Horses
• Blood Meridian
• The Crossing
• Cities of the Plain)

Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Zodiac, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon)

Oscar Hijuelos (Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love, Empress of the Splendid Season, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien)

Gabriel Marquez (Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera)

Steve Erickson (Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight )

Milan Kundera (Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Slowness)

Tom Robbins (Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Skinny Legs and All, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates)

Richard Selzer (Mortal Lessons, Down from Troy, Imagine a Woman , Raising the Dead)

Kurt Vonnegut

• 65 Kurt Vonnegut 1 ****Cat's Cradle 20/7 AMER N15 -- 1969
• 78 Kurt Vonnegut 2 Mother Night 20/8 AMER N22 --1969
• 44 Kurt Vonnegut 3 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 20/11 AMER N20 -- 1970
• 5 Kurt Vonnegut 4 Slaughterhouse-5 20/4 AMER N1 -- 1971
• 11 Kurt Vonnegut 5 The Sirens of Titan 20/6 AMER N4 -- 1971
• 12 Kurt Vonnegut 6 Breakfast of Champions 20/6 AMER N -- 1977
• 19 Kurt Vonnegut 7 Slapstik 20/13 AMER N -- 1978
• 51 Kurt Vonnegut 8 Jailbird 20/37 AMER N19 -- 1985
• 23 Kurt Vonnegut 9 Happy Birthday, Wanda June 20/11 AMER PL2-- 1986
• 6 Kurt Vonnegut 10 Deadeye Dick 20/2 AMER N4 --1986
• 2 Kurt Vonnegut 11 Galapagos 20/2 AMER N1 -- 1987
• 1 Kurt Vonnegut 12 Bluebeard 20/1 AMER N1 -- 1989
• 2 Kurt Vonnegut 13 Hocus Pocus 2 AMER N1 -- 1992
• 81 Kurt Vonnegut 14 Player Piano AMERICAN 20th 55 NOVEL 36 -- 1997
• 90 Kurt Vonnegut 15 ***Timequake AMERICAN 20th 60 NOVEL 43 -- 1997 review
• 91 Kurt Vonnegut 16 *Welcome to the Monkey House AMERICAN 20th 61 SHORT STORIES 8 -- 1997
• 103 Kurt Vonnegut 17 *Palm Sunday AMERICAN 20th 69 ESSAY 5 -- 1997
• 6 Kurt Vonnegut 18 Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons AMER 20th 5 ESSAY 1 -- 1998
• 29 Kurt Vonnegut 19 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian AMERICAN 20th 14 ESSAY 4 -- 2000
• 30 Kurt Vonnegut 20 Bagombo Snuff Box AMERICAN 20th 15 SHORT STORIES 1 -- 2000

• 71 Penelope Fitzgerald 1 The Gate of Angels ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL 34 -- 2001
• 91 Penelope Fitzgerald 2 *The Book Shop ENGLISH 20th 10 NOVEL 39 -- 2001
• 92 Penelope Fitzgerald 3 ** The Beginning of Spring English 20th 11 NOVEL 40 -- 2001
• 7 Penelope Fitzgerald 4 *Innocence  ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 1 -- 2002
• 27 Penelope Fitzgerald 5 *Offshore ENGLISH 20th 3 NOVEL 7 -- 2002
• 31 Penelope Fitzgerald 6 **Human Voices ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 8 -- 2002
• 32 Penelope Fitzgerald 7 The Means of Escape ENGLISH 21st 1 SHORT STORIES 1 -- 2002
• 36 Penelope Fitzgerald 8 At Freddie's ENGLISH 20th 7 NOVEL 12 -- 2002
• 39 Penelope Fitzgerald 9 *The Golden Child ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL 14 -- 2002
• 40 Penelope Fitzgerald 10 *The Blue Flower ENGLISH 20th 10 NOVEL 15 -- 2002

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