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READING 2008

Attached is a list of the books I read in 2008. 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 Italo Calvino 2 ***If on a Winter's Night a Traveler  ITALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1
2 Strobe Talbott 1 *The Russia Hand AMERICAN 21st 1 HISTORY 1 review
3 Samuel Beckett Molloy IRISH 20th 1 NOVEL 2
4 PD James The Murder Room ENGLISH 21st 1 MYSTERY 1

February
5 Kiran Desai 1 The Inheritance of Loss INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 3
6 Jose Saramago 10 Seeing PORTUGUESE 21st 1 NOVEL 4
7 Tom Gilling 1 Sooterkin AUSTRALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 5
8 Umberto Eco 8 How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays ITALIAN 20th 2 ESSAYS 1

March
9 James Hogg 1 (on CD) (on Kindle) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner SCOTTISH 19th 1 NOVEL 6
10 Robert Louis Stevenson 4  (on CD) (on Kindle)  Island Nights' Entertainments (includes The Beach at Falesa, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices) SCOTTISH 19th 2 SHORT STORIES 1
11 Robert Louis Stevenson 5 (on CD) (on Kindle)  Markheim SCOTTISH 19th 3 SHORT STORIES 2
12 Robert Louis Stevenson 6  (on CD) (on Kindle)The Silverado Squatters SCOTTISH 19th 4 MEMOIR 1
13 Robert Louis Stevenson 7  (on CD) (on Kindle) The Art of Writing SCOTTISH 19th 5 ESSAYS 2
14 Robert Louis Stevenson 8  (on CD) (on Kindle) The Waif Woman SCOTTISH 19th 6 SHORT STORIES 3
15 Robert Louis Stevenson 9  (on CD) (on Kindle) New Arabian Nights (includes The Suicide Club, The Rajah's Diamond, A Lodging fo the Night, The Sire de Maletroit's Door, Providence and the Guitar) SCOTTISH 19th 7 SHORT STORIES 4
16 Robert Louis Stevenson 10   (on CD) (on Kindle) Fables SCOTTISH 19th 7 SHORT STORIES 5
17 Robert Louis Stevenson 11  (on CD) (on Kindle) The Dynamiter SCOTTISH 19th 8 NOVEL 7
18 Robert Louis Stevenson 3   (on CD) (on Kindle) Treasure Island [second time] SCOTTISH 19th 9 NOVEL 8
19 Robert Louis Stevenson 12 (on CD) (on Kindle)  Kidnapped SCOTTISH 19th 10 NOVEL 9
20 Robert Louis Stevenson 13  (on CD) (on Kindle) Catriona SCOTTISH 19th 10 NOVEL 10

April
21 Robert Louis Stevenson 14  (on CD) (on Kindle) Master of Ballantrae SCOTTISH 19th 11 NOVEL 11
22 Robert Louis Stevenson 15 (on CD) (on Kindle)  Black Arrow SCOTTISH 19th 12 NOVEL 12
23 Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1 (on CD) (on Kindle)   Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTTISH 19th 13 BIOGRAPHY 1
24 Thomas Carlyle 3  (on CD) (on Kindle) Early Kings of Norway  BRITISH 19th 1 HISTORY 1
25 G.K. Chesterton 2  (on CD) (on Kindle) Varied Types BRITISH 20th 1  LIT CRIT 1

May
26 Robert Louis Stevenson 16 (on CD) (on Kindle) Familiar Studies and Men and Books  BRITISH 19th 2 LIT CRIT 2
27 Edward Gibbon 4 (on CD)(on Kindle) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 3 of 6 BRITISH 18th 2 HISTORY 2
28 Robert Louis Stevenson 17 (on CD) (on Kindle) Prince Otto British 19th 2 NOVEL 13

June
29 Robert Louis Stevenson 18 (on CD) (on Kindle) St. Ives British 19th 3 NOVEL 14
30 G.K. Chesterton 3   (on CD) (on Kindle)  The Victorian Age BRITISH 20th 2 LIT CRIT 2
31 Thomas Carlyle 4   (on CD)(on Kindle)  On the Choice of Books BRITISH 19th 3 ESSAY 3
32 D.H. Lawrence 5  (on CD)(on Kindle)  Sons and Lovers BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 15
33 Frederick Schiller 5 (on CD)(on Kindle)   History of the Revolt of the Netherlands GERMAN 19th 1 HISTORY 1

July
34 Frederick Schiller 6 (on CD)(on Kindle)   Camp of Wallenstein GERMAN 19th 2 DRAMA 1
35 Frederick Schiller 7 (on CD)(on Kindle)   Piccolomini GERMAN 19th 3 DRAMA 2
36 Frederick Schiller 6 (on CD)(on Kindle)   Death of Wallenstein GERMAN 19th 4 DRAMA 3
37 G.K. Chesterton 3  (on CD) (on Kindle)  The Man Who Was Thursday  BRITISH 20th 2  NOVEL 15
38 Robert Louis Stevenson 19 (on CD) (on Kindle) Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes BRITISH 19th 4 TRAVEL 1
39 H.L. Mencken (on CD) (on Kindle)  Damn! A Book of Calumny AMERICAN  20th 1 ESSAY 4
40 W.E.B. Dubois  (on CD) (on Kindle)  The Souls of Black Folks AMERICAN 20th 2 ESSAY 5
41 Sir Walter Scott (on CD) (on Kindle) Old Mortality [second time] BRITISH 19th 5 NOVEL 16
42 Jean Froissart The Chronicles of Froissart

August
43 Edward Gibbon 5 (on CD)(on Kindle) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5 of 6 BRITISH 18th 3 HISTORY 4
44 Sir Walter Scott   (on CD) (on Kindle)  *The Heart of Midlothian [second time]  BRITISH 19th 6 NOVEL 17

September
45 Sir Walter Scott 4 *Ivanhoe  (on CD) (on Kindle)   BRITISH 19th 7 NOVEL 18

October
46 Tiny Little Troubles by Marc Lecard AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 19
47 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 (on CD) (on Kindle)A Princess of Mars (Barsoom series #1) AMERICAN 20th 3 SCIFI 1
48 Edgar Rice Burroughs 2  (on CD) (on Kindle)  The Gods of Mars (Barsoom series #2) AMERICAN 20th 4 SCIFI 2
49 Edgar Rice Burroughs 3  (on CD) (on Kindle)Warlord of Mars (Barsoom series #3) AMERICAN 20th 5 SCIFI 3
50 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4  (on CD) (on Kindle)   Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom series #4)  AMERICAN 20th 6 SCIFI 4
51 Edgar Rice Burroughs 5   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom series #5) AMERICAN 20th 7 SCIFI 5

November
52 Edgar Rice Burroughs 6   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Tarzan of the Apes AMERICAN 20th 8 SCIFI 6
53 Edgar Rice Burroughs 7   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Return of Tarzan AMERICAN 20th 9 SCIFI 7
54 Edgar Rice Burroughs 8   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Son of Tarzan AMERICAN 20th 10 SCIFI 8
55 Jane Smiley 2 Horse Heaven AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 20
56 Edgar Rice Burroughs 9   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar AMERICAN 20th 11 SCIFI 9

December
57 Edgar Rice Burroughs 10   (on CD) (on Kindle)  Jungle Tales of Tarzan AMERICAN 20th 12 SCIFI 10
58 Albert Payson Terhune 1 (on CD) Black Caesar's Clan AMERICAN 20th 13 NOVEL 19
59 Ken Scholes 2 Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Strange Journeys AMERICAN 21st 4 SCIFI 11

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