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READING 1986

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1986. 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 Jerzy Kosinski Cockpit 20/1 POL N1

2 Charles Dickens Cricket on the Hearth 19/1 ENG N2

3 D.M. Thomas Swallow 20/1 ENG N3

4 Harry Harrison 1 The Stainless Steel Rat 20/1 AMER SF1

Feb. 1986

5 Astrid Lindgren 1 Pippi Longstocking J1

6 Kurt Vonnegut Deadeye Dick 20/2 AMER N4

7 Agatha Christie 2 Murder in the Vicarage 20/2 ENG MY1

8 Ruth Plum Thompson 1 Kabumpo in Oz 20/3 AMER J2

March 1986

9 Harry Harrison 2 The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge20/4 AMER SF2

10 Harry Harrison 3 The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World 20/5 AMER SF3

11 Raymond Smullyan 1 Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes 20/6 AMER CH1

12 Jean Anouilh The Lark [trans. by Craig Schneider, in mss.] 20/1 FREN PL1

13 Alfred Doblin 1 Berlin Alexanderplatz 20/1 GER N5

April 1986

14 Agatha Christie 3 Cards on the Table 20/3 ENG MY2

May 1986

15 Henry Perkinson 1 Learning from Our Mistakes 20/7 AMER ED1

16 Lewis Carroll 2 Through the Looking-Glass 19/2 ENG J3

17 Joe Nathan 1 Micro-Myths 20/8 AMER ED2

July 1986

18 John Irving ***Cider House Rules* 20/9 AMER N6

19 Stratis Haviaras 1 **The Heroic Age* 20/1 GREEK N7

20 Julian Barnes 1 *Flaubert's Parrot 20/3 ENG N8

21 Josephine Tey 1 Daughter of Time 20/4 ENG MY3

22 Tom Robbins 1 Still Life with Woodpecker 20/10 AMER N9

August 1986

23 Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June 20/11 AMER PL2

24 Gary Trudeau 2 Wouldn't a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible 20/12 AMER HU1

25 Plato Apology BC/1 GREEK PH1

26 Plato Crito BC/2 GREEK PH2

27 Plato Phaedo BC/3 GREEK PH3

28 Philip Roth The Ghost Writer 20/13 AMER N10

29 Carolyn Chute The Beans of Egypt, Maine 20/14 AMER N11

30 e.e. cummings The Enormous Room 20/15 AMER BI1

31 Dante Alighieri Inferno 14/1 ITAL P1

32 Dante Alighieri Purgatorio 14/2 ITAL P2

33 Katherine Anne Porter Ship of Fools* 20/16 AMER N12

34 Dashiell Hammett 1 The Thin Man 20/17 AMER MY4

35 Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 20/18 AMER N12

September 1986

36 Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast 20/19 AMER N13

37 John Hersey 4 A Bell for Adano* 20/20 AMER N14

38 John Hersey 5 Hiroshima 20/21 AMER HIS1

39 Willa Cather 1 My Antonia 20/22 AMER N15

40 Ivan Illich 1 Deschooling Society 20/23 AMER ED3

41 Ruth Plumly Thompson 2 The Hungry Tiger of Oz 20/24 AMER J4

42 Isak Dinesen 1 Out of Africa 20/1 DANE BI2

October 1986

43 Isak Dinesen 2 Shadows on the Grass 20/2 DANE B13

44 Marilyn Ferguson 1 The Aquarian Conspiracy 20/25 AMER ED4

November 1986

45 David Quammen 2 Natural Acts 20/26 AMER ES1

46 Richard Selzer Taking the World in for Repairs 20/27 AMER ES2

December 1986

47 V.C. Andrews 2 Petals on the Wind 20/28 AMER N16



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