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READING 2015
Attached is a list of the books I read in 2015.
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
Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
January
1 Machado de Assis 1 Brazilian Tales
BRAZILIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 1
2 Charles MacKay 1 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,
Volume 1 BRITISH 19th 1 HISTORY 1
3 Howard Jacobson 1 J BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 1
4 Henry James 12 The Ambassadors, Volume 1 AMERICAN 19th 1
NOVEL 2
5 Henry James 13 The Ambassadors, Volume 2 AMERICAN 19th 2
NOVEL 3
6 Henry James 14 The Lesson of the Master AMERICAN 19th 3
NOVEL 4
7 Henry James 15 Madame de Mauve AMERICAN 19th 4 NOVEL 5
February
8 Henry James 16 The Beast of the Jungle AMERICAN 19th 5
NOVEL 6
9 Peter Beagle 2 **A Fine and Private Place AMERICAN 20th 1
NOVEL 7
10 Henry James 17 An International Episode AMERICAN 19th 6 NOVEL
8
11 Henry James 18 The Art of Fiction AMERICAN 19th 7 ESSAY 1
12 Peter Carey 2 **Amnesia AUSTRALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 9
March
13 Henry James 19 The Author of Beltraffio AMERICAN 19th 7 NOVEL
10
14 Simon Rich 1 **The Last Girlfriend on Earth AMERICAN 21st 1
SHORT STORIES 2
15 Bob Seltzer 6 Cynk, ***new draft, mss. AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL
11
16 J. B. Goodenough 1 ***Milking in November AMERICAN 21st 3
POETRY 1
17 Daphne du Maurier 1 ***The House on the Strand AMERICAN 20th
2 NOVEL 12
18 Anais Nin 4 The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One 1931-1934
FRENCH 20th 1 BIOGRAPHY 1
19 Jack Kerouac 1 On the Road (second time) AMERICAN 20th 3
NOVEL 13
April
20 Anthology - Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-Minute Plays #1
AMERICAN 20th 3 PLAY 1
22 Anthology - Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-Minute Plays #2
AMERICAN 21st 4 PLAY 2
23 Magazine - Granta #129 BRITISH 21st 1 MAGAZINE 1
May
24 Anthony Marra 1 ****A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 14
25 Matthew Pearl 5 The Last Bookaneer AMERICAN 21st
6 NOVEL 15
26 Ann Patchett 3 **** State of Wonder AMERICAN 21st 7
NOVEL 16
27 Paula Hawkings 1 ****The Girl on the Train BRITISH 21st 1
NOVEL 17
28 James McClure 1 (performance, Gloucester, MA) ****1959 Pink
Thunderbird AMERICAN 20th 4 PLAY 3
29 Constance Congdon 1 (performance, Boston Center for the Arts)
Hair of the Dog AMERICAN 21st 8 PLAY 4
30 Liana Asim 1 (performance, Boston Center for the Arts) The
King of Love Is Dead AMERICAN 21st 9 PLAY 5
31 Gregory Fletcher 1 (performance, Boston Center for the Arts)
Uploaded AMERICAN 21st 10 PLAY 6
32 Anthology (performance, Boston Center for the Arts)
Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-Minute Plays #17 AMERICAN 21th
11 PLAY 7
33 Anthony Doerr 1 ****All the Light We Cannot See AMERICAN 21st
12 NOVEL 18
34 Garth Stein 1 **The Art of Racing in the Rain AMERICAN 21st
13 NOVEL 19
June
35 William Golding 4 **The Double Tongue BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 20
July
36 Kate Atkinson 2 ***A God in Ruins British 21st 2 NOVEL 21
August
37 Jo Nesbo 4 **Police NORWEGIAN 1 MYSTERY 1
September
38 Harper Lee 2 Go Set a Watchman AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 22
September 27, 2015 married Marilyn Lender
October
39 Richard Powers 11 ***Orfeo AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL 23
40 Kazuo Ishiguro 8 The Buried Giant BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL
24
41 Ian McEwan 12 The Children Act BRITISH 21st 4 NOVEL 25
42 Jonathan Franzen 4 *Purity AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 26
November
43 David Mitchell 7 Slade House BRITISH 21st 18 NOVEL 29
44 Jumpa Lahiri 3 ***The Lowland INDIAN 21st 19 NOVEL 31
45 Julia Pierpont 1 Among the Ten Thousand Things AMERICAN 21st
20 NOVEL 32
December
46 Umberto Eco 10 Numero Zero ITALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 33
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