1 William Faulkner 14 *The Mansion (part of the Snopes trilogy)
(published 1955 set c. 1908-1946) AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1 review
2 Gail Tsukuyama 1 *The Samurai's Garden AMERICAN 20th 2, CHINESE
20th 1, JAPANESE 20th 1 NOVEL 2 review
3 Anne Lamott 1 *Bird by Bird AMERICAN 20th 3 ESSAYS 1
4 Gao Xingjian 1 Soul Mountain CHINESE 20th 1 NOVEL 3 review
5 William Faulkner 15 **Intruder in the Dust (published 1948, set
c. 1946) AMERICAN 20th 4 NOVEL 4
6 William Faulkner 16 Knight's Gambit (published 1949, set c.
1940-42) AMERICAN 20th 5 SHORT STORIES 1
7 Andre Dubus III 1 **House of Sand and Fog House of Sand and Fog
AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 5 review
8 Jonathan Spence 1 The Search for Modern China AMERICAN 20th 7
HISTORY 1 review
9 William Faulkner 17 Old Man AMERICAN 20th 8 NOVEL 6
February (Finished writing Take Charge of your Web site)
10 William Faulkner 18 If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild
Palms) AMERICAN 20th 9 NOVEL 7
11 Raymond Chandler 1 The Big Sleep AMERICAN 20th 10 MYSTERY 1
12 Jhumpa Lahiri 1 Interpreter of Maladies AMERICAN 20th 10 INDIAN
20th 1 STORIES 2 review
13 Victor Pelevin 6 The Blue Lantern RUSSIAN 20th 1 STORIES 3
14 Manil Suri 1 Death of Vishnu AMERICAN 20th 11 INDIAN 20th 2
NOVEL 8 review
15 Ha Jin 1 Waiting AMERICAN 20th 12 CHINESE 20th 2 NOVEL 9 review
16 Rick Moody 5 Demonology AMERICAN 21st 1 STORIES 4
17 Jeanette Winterson 1 **PowerBook ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 10 review
18 Cormac McCarthy 5 Child of God AMERICAN 20th 12 NOVEL 11
19 Jose Saramago 2 ***Blindness PORTUGUESE 20th 1 NOVEL 12
March
20 ed. Ian Jack Granta #57, 1997, India: The Golden Jubilee
English 20th 2 MAGAZINE 1
21 Kazuo Ishiguro 3 ***When We Were Orphans ENGLISH 20th 3
JAPANESE 20th 2 NOVEL 13 review
22 William Faulkner 19 -- (awful) Soldiers' Pay AMERICAN 20th 13
NOVEL 14 review
23 Alexander Dumas 14 Karl-Ludwig Sand (from Celebrated Crimes)
FRENCH 19th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
24 William Faulkner 20 - Mosquitoes AMERICAN 20th 14 NOVEL 15
review
April
25 William Faulkner 21 *Flags in the Dust AMERICAN 20th 15 NOVEL
16 review
26 Dick Roth 1 No, It's Not Hot in HereAMERICAN 20th 16 MEDICAL 1
27 Sherwood Anderson 1 *Winesburg, Ohio AMERICAN 20th 17 NOVEL 17
28 Jeanette Winterson 2 *The Passion ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 18
29 Don Delillo 3 *The Body Artist AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 19
30 Michael Cunningham 1 *The Hours AMERICAN 20th 18 NOVEL 20
31 A.S. Byatt 2 *The Biographer's Tale ENGLISH 20th 5 NOVEL 21
review
32 David Sedaris 1 The Santaland Diaries AMERICAN 20th 19 PLAY 1
33 David Sedaris 2 Season's Greetings AMERICAN 20th 20 PLAY 2
34 Amy Tan4 ***The Bonesetter's Daughter AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 22
review
May (Finished writing Web Business Bootcamp)
35 Stephen King 3 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon AMERICAN 20th 21
NOVEL 23
36 Brian Greene 1 ***The Elegant Universe AMERICAN 20th 22 SCIENCE
1 review
37 Moses Isegawa 1 *Abyssinian Chronicles UGANDA 20th 1 NOVEL 24
38 Virginia Bradford 2 Autobiography (mss.) AMERICAN 20th 23
BIOGRAPHY 2 available online at www.samzidat.com/brad1.html
39 Anselm Atkins 1 The Notebooks of Lana Skimnest AMERICAN 20th 24
NOVEL 25 review
40 Thomas Carlyle 2 Sartor Resartus ENGLISH 19th 1 ESSAY 2
June
41 Mercy Otis Warren 2 The Group [play] (second time) AMERICAN
18th 1 PLAY 3 text on Web
42 ed. Ian Jack Necessary Journeys: Granta #73, ENGLISH 20th 6
MAGAZINE 2
43 Jeremy Josephs 1 Un Chateau en Dordogne (en francais) ENGLISH
20th 7 BIOGRAPHY 3
44 Homer ***The Iliad (Fagles translation) GREEK BC 1 NOVEL 26
review
July
45 Jules Verne 2 Voyage au centre de la terre (en francais) FRENCH
19th 2 NOVEL 27
46 Linda Hall 6 **Sadie's Song CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 28 review
47 Mercy Otis Warren The Motley Assembly [play]
[second time] AMERICAN 18th 2 PLAY 4 text on Web
48 Abbe Prevost 1 Manon Lescaut [cf. Moll Flanders] (en francais)
FRENCH 18th 1 NOVEL 29
49 Tacitus 1The Annals ROMAN 1st HISTORY 2
50 RWB Lewis 3 Dante AMERICAN 20th 25 BIOGRAPHY 4
51 Janet Smith 1 House Call to the Past [electronic book] AMERICAN
20th 26 NOVEL 30 review
52 Diane Croft 1 Blinded at Birth available on the Web at
www.seltzerbooks.com/croft.html AMERICAN 20th 27 POETRY 1 review
53 Tacitus 2 Annals ROMAN 1st 2 HISTORY 3
54 Tacitus 3 Agricola ROMAN 1st 3 HISTORY 4
55 Tacitus 4 Germany ROMAN 1st 4 HISTORY 5
56 Robert Parker 28 and Raymond Chandler 2 Poodle Springs AMERICAN
20th 38 MYSTERY 2
57 John Irving 11 The Fourth Hand AMERICAN 20th 39 NOVEL 31
58 Robert Parker 29 Sudden Mischief AMERICAN 20th 39 MYSTERY 3
59 Robert Parker 30 Trouble in Paradise AMERICAN 20th 40 MYSTERY 4
60 Robert Parker 31 Hush Money AMERICAN 20th 41 MYSTERY 5
61 Nathaniel Hawthorne 5 The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair
(New England History 1620-1808) [electronic book] AMERICAN 19th 1
HISTORY 6
August
62 Louise Erdrich 7 **Last Report on the Miracles at Little No
Horse AMERICAN 20th 42 NOVEL 31
63 Richard de Bury 1 Philobiblion [electronic book] ENGLISH 14th 1
ESSAY 3
64 Quintus Smyrnaeus 1 The Fall of Troy ROMAN 4th 1 HISTORY 7
65 A.S. Byatt 3 On Histories and Stories ENGLISH 20th 8 ESSAY 4
66 Homer ***The Odyssey (Fagles translation) GREEK BC 2 NOVEL 32
67 Ursula Le Guin 9 **Tales of Earthsea AMERICAN 20th 43 STORIES 5
66 Aristotle 2 Metaphysics GREEK 4th BC 1 PHILOSOPHY 1
67 Ursula Le Guin 10 **THe Word for World Is Forest AMERICAN 20th
44 SCIENCE FICTION 1
68 Pliny the Elder 1 Natural History (a selection, Penguin) ROMAN
1st 5 SCIENCE 2
69 Euripides Andromache (second time) GREEK 4th BC 2 PLAY 5
70 Doris Lessing 5 The Golden Notebook RHODESIAN 20th 1
NOVEL 33
71 Penelope Fitzgerald 1 The Gate of Angles ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL
34
September
72 Livy 2 Rome and Italy ROMAN 1st 5 HISTORY 6
73 Marion Zimmer Bradley 1 The Firebrand AMERICAN 20th 45 NOVEL 35
74 Sarah Franklin 1 Daughter of Troy AMERICAN 20th 46 NOVEL 36
October
75 Iris Murdoch 3 Sartre: Romantic Rationalist ENGLISH 20th
20 ESSAY 5
76 G.I. Gurdjieff 1 Meetings with Remarkable Men
RUSSIAN 20th 2 BIOGRAPHY 5
77 Iak Dinesen 3 Seven Gothic Tales DANISH 20th 1 STORIES 6
78 Mercy Otis Warren 4 The Adulateur AMERICAN 18th 3 PLAY 6
text on Web
79 Mercy Otis Warren 5 The Defeat AMERICAN 18th 4 PLAY 7
text on Web
80 Livy 3 The War with Hannibal ROMAN 1st 6 HISTORY 7
November
81 Julius Caesar 1 The Civil War ROMAN 1st BC 1 HISTORY 8
82 anonymous The Alexandrian War ROMAN 1st BC 2 HISTORY 9
83 Isak Dinesen 4 Winter's Tales DANISH 20th 2 STORIES 7
84 anonymous The African War ROMAN 1st BC 3 HISTORY 10
85 Plutarch 1 Lives (volume 1 of 5) GREEK 1st AD
HISTORY 11
86 Xenophon 2 The Polity of Athenians and Lacedaimonians GREEK 4th
BC 3 HISTORY 12
December
87 Jonathan Franzen 2 *The Corrections AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 37
88 Arturo Perez-Reverte 5 *The Nautical Chart SPANISH
21st 1 NOVEL 38
89 James Hogan 15 *Bug Park AMERICAN 20th 48 SCIFI 1
90 Roberta Kalechofsky 6 **Solomon's Wisdom and Other
Stories AMERICAN 20th 49 STORIES 8
91 Penelope Fitzgerald 2 *The Book Shop ENGLISH 20th 10 NOVEL 39
92 Penelope Fitzgerald 3 ** The Beginning of Spring ENGLISH 20th
11 NOVEL 40
93 Jeanne Steig 1 A Gift from Zeus AMERICAN 21st 5 STORIES 9
94 Eoin Colfer 1 Artemis Fowl (aloud) IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 41
95 Chet Raymo 1 An Intimate Look at the Night Sky AMERICAN 21st 6
SCIENCE 3
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