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READING 2004

Attached is a list of the books I read in 2004. 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. For the complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html

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January

1 Jacques Casanova 24 Memoirs, volume 6a Spain [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
2 Michael Crichton 4 **Prey AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 1
3 Dan Brown 2 Angels and Demons AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 2
4 Eoin Colfer 3 Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 3
5 Christopher Paoling 1 **Eragon AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 4
6 Jacques Casanova 25 Memoirs, volume 6b Exiled from Spain [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 2 BIOGRAPHY 2
7 Jacques Casanova 26 Memoirs, volume 6c Rome [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 3 BIOGRAPHY 3
8 Jacques Casanova 27 Memoirs, volume 6d Florence to Trieste [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 4 BIOGRAPHY 4
9 Jacques Casanova 24 Memoirs, volume 63 Old Age and Death [electronic book] ITALIAN 18th 5 BIOGRAPHY 5
10 Robert Parker *Shrink Rap AMERICAN 21st 3 MYSTERY 1
11 Daniel Wallace 1 Big Fish AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 5

February

12 Alexander McCall Smith 2 *Morality for Beautiful Girls BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 6
13 Paulo Coelho 1 **The Alchemist BRAZIL 20th 1 NOVEL 7
14 Alexander McCall Smith 3 *Tears of the Giraffe BOTSWANNA 21st 2 NOVEL 8
15 Jeffrey Eugenides 1 ****Middlesex AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 9
16 Jeffrey Eugenides 2 The Virgin Suicides AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 10
17 Margaret Drabble 1 The Seven Sisters ENGLISH 21st 1 NOVEL 11

March

18 Philip Roth 5 ***American Pastoral AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 12
19 Elizabeth Buchan 1 Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman ENGLISH 21st 2 NOVEL 13
20 Jhumpa Lahiri 2 ***The Namesake INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 14
21 William Gibson 4 **Pattern Recognition AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 15
22 Matthew Pearl 1 ****The Dante Club AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 16
23 Alexander McCall Smith 4 **The Kalahari Typing School for Men BOTSWANNA 21st 3 NOVEL 17
24 Robert Parker 34 Back Story AMERICAN 21st 9 MYSTERY 1
25 Michael Chabon 1 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 18

April
26 Joanne Harris 2 Blackberry Wine ENGLISH 21st 3 NOVEL 19

May
27 Neal Stephenson 6 Quicksilver AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 20

June
28 Neal Stephenson 7 The Confusion AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 21
29 Mark Haddon 1 ***The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ENGLISH 21st 4 NOVEL 22
30 Jasper Fforde 2 *Lost in a Good Book ENGLISH 21st 5 NOVEL 23
31 Karen Joy Fowler 1 **The Jane Austen Book Club AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 24

July
32 Somerset Maugham 4 *Of Human Bondage ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 25
33 Sue Monk Kidd 1 The Secret Life of Bees AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 25
34 Kazuo Ishiguro 5 A Pale View of Hills JAPANESE 20th 1/ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 26
35 Dave Eggers 1 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 27
36 Christopher Moore 1 **Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 28
37 Michael Chabon 2 ***The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 29
38 Harry Kemelman 2 Monday the Rabbi Took Off AMERICAN 20th 3 MYSTERY 2
39 Harry Kemelman 3 Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red AMERICAN 20th 4 MYSTERY 3
40 G.P. Taylor 1 Shadowmancer ENGLISH 21st 5 NOVEL 30
41 Audrey Niffenegger 1 **The Time Traveler's Wife AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL 31
42 Julia Glass 1 Three Junes AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 32
43 David Liss 1 *The Coffee Trader AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 33

August
44 Tom Robbins 7 *Villa Incognito AMERICAN 21st 18 NOVEL 34
45 Dave Barry  10 Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus AMERICAN 20th 5 HUMOR 1
46 Russell Hoban 5 Her Name Was Lola ENGLISH 21st 6 NOVEL 35
47 Jurgen Wolff 1 Successful Sitcom Writing AMERICAN 20th 5 HOWTO 1
48 Gregory Maguire 2 **Confuessions of an Ugly Stepsister AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 36

September
49 Colm Toibin 1 The Master IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 37
50 Alain de Botton Status Anxiety   7 ENGLISH 21st 6 ESSAYS 1

October

November
51 David Foster Wallace 6 Oblivion (short stories) AMERICAN 21st 18 SHORT STORIES 1
52 Paul Auster 1 ***The Book of Illusions AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 38

December
53 Gregory Maguire 3 ***Mirror, Mirror AMERICAN 21st 20 NOVEL 39
54 Gregory Maguire 4 ***Lost AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 40
55 Jasper Fforde 3 The Well of Lost Plots ENGLISH 21st 7 NOVEL 41
56 Garrison Keillor 2 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 AMERICAN 21st 22 NOVEL 42
57 Valdimir Nabokov 13 Mary RUSSIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 43
58 Alexander Pushkin (repeat) Eugene Onegin, Nabokov translation, RUSSIAN 19th 1 NOVEL 44
59 Dorothy Sayers 1 Whose Body? (Lord Peter Whimsey #1) ENGLISH 20th 3 MYSTERY 5
60 Dorothy Sayers 2 Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Whimsey #2) ENGLISH 20th 4 MYSTERY 6
61 Dorothy Sayers 3 Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Whimsey #3) ENGLISH 20th 5 MYSTERY 7
62 Dorothy Sayers 4 The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Whimsey #4) ENGLISH 20th 6 MYSTERY 8
63 Dorothy Sayers 5 Strong Poison (Lord Peter Whimsey #5) ENGLISH 20th 7 MYSTERY 9

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