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READING 1978

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1978. 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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Jan.

1 ed. Trask & Burtshaw Storytellers & Their Art 20/1 AMER ST

2 Nathaniel Hawthorne Portable Hawthorne (13 stories) 19/1 AMER ST

3 Anton Chekhov (ed. Greene) **Great Short Stories of Chekhov 19/1 RUSS ST

4 A.A. Milne 1 Winnie-the-Pooh (read to Bobby) 20/1 ENG CHIL

5 Lisa Alther 1 Kin Flicks 20/2 AMER N

6 Gore Vidal 1 Burr 20/3 AMER N

February 1978

7 Nicholas Meyer 1 The West End Horror 20/4 AMER MY

8 Fritjof Capra 1 **The Tao of Physics 20/5 AMER ES

9 Racine Berenice (en francais) 17/1 FREN PL

10 William Gaddis 1 The Recognitions 20/6 AMER N

April 1978

11 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Lenin in Zurich 20/2 RUSS HIST

12 Friedman Pogromchik 20/7 AMER HIST

May 1978

13 Rex Sexton Carrie Grimes (mss.) 20/8 AMER N

14 Mike Chapman 1 Hidden Heroes (mss.) 20/9 AMER N

June 1978

15 Joan Didion 1 A Book of Common Prayer 20/10 AMER N

July 1978

16 Coleen McCullough The Thorn Birds 20/1 AUST N

17 James Carroll 2 Mortal Friends 20/11 AMER N

18 Mike Chapman 2 Town at the End of the World (mss) 20/12 AMER N

19 Kurt Vonnegut Slapstik 20/13 AMER N

20 Erica John 1 Fear of Flying 20/14 AMER N

21 Leon Uris 2 Trinity 20/15 AMER N

22 John Irving 1 The World According to Garp* 20/16 AMER N

August 1978

23 John Cheever 1 Falconer 20/17 AMER N

24 Robert Penn Warren 3 A Place to Come To 20/18 AMER N

25 Saul Bellow 2 Humboldt's Gift 20/19 AMER N

26 Peter Shaffer 1 Equus 20/2 ENG PL

27 ed. Rosellen Brown Poughshares vol. 4, No. 2 20/20 AMER ST

September 1978

28 ed. James Randall Ploughshares vol. 4, No. 1 20/21 AMER ST

29 Gabriel Marquez 3 Autumn of the Patriarch 20/1 COLUM ST

30 Walker Percy 1 Lancelot 20/22 AMER N

October 1978

31 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago II 20/2 RUSS HIST

November 1978

32 ed. Bill Henderson The Pushcart Prize I 20/23 AMER ST

33 ed. DeWitt Henry Ploughshares vol. 4, No. 3 20/24 AMER ST

34 James Agee 1 A Death in the Family* 20/25 AMER N

35 John Knowles 1 A Separate Peace 20/26 AMER N

36 Kingsley Amis 1 Lucky Jim 19/3 ENG N

37 Henry James The Turn of the Screw 19/2 AMER ST

38 Eudora Welty 1 A Curtain of Green 20/29 AMER ST

39 Eudora Welty 2 The Wide Net 20/30 AMER ST

December 1978

40 Anthony Powell 1 Afternoon Men 20/4 ENG N

41 Isaac Asimov 1 Foundation 20/31 AMER SF

42 Isaac Asimov 2 Foundation & Empire 20/32 AMER SF

43 Isaac Asimov 3 Second Foundation 20/33 AMER SF

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