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READING 1987

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1987. 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


Jan.

1 Robert Asprin 5 Mything Persons 20/1 AMER FAN1

2 Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos 20/2 AMER N1

3 Orson Scott Card 1 Ender's Game 20/3 AMER SF1

4 David Feldman 1 Nature's Gambit 20/4 AMER PSY1

February 1987

5 Jorge Amado 1 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon 20/1 BRAZ N2

6 James Hogan 9 The Proteus Operation 20/1 ENG SF2

7 Robert Parker A Catskill Eagle 20/5 AMER MYS1

8 Loren Eiseley 2 The Unexpected Universe 20/6 AMER ES1

9 Allan Moorehead 3 Darwin and the Beagle 20/7 AMER BIO1

March 1987

10 Carl Sagan 1 The Dragons of Eden 20/8 AMER ES2

11 Vassily Aksyonov 1 The Island of Crimea 20/1 RUSS N3

12 Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager 20/9 AMER BUS1

13 Orson Scott Card 2 Speaker for the Dead 20/10 AMER SF3

14 Thomas Pynchon 4 Slow Learner 20/11 AMER ST1

15 Susan Minot 1 Monkeys 20/12 AMER N4

April 1987

16 C.S. Lewis 3 Prince Caspian (read aloud) 20/2 ENG JUV1

17 William Gaddis 2 Carpenter's Gothic 20/13 AMER N5

18 Margaret Atwood 1 The Handmaid's Tale 20/14 AMER N6

19 David Feldman 2 Beyond Universals in Cognitive Development 20/15 AMER PSY2

May 1987

20 Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger 19/1 AMER N7

21 Aldous Huxley Island 20/3 ENG N8

22 Louise Erdrich 1 Love Medicine 20/16 AMER N9

23 William James 1 Varieties of Religious Experience20/17 AMER PSY3

24 Henry James Hawthorne 19/2 AMER BIO1

25 John Collins 1 My Seven Chess Prodigies 20/18 AMER CH1

26 Herman Melville 2 Billy Budd 19/3 AMER N10

June 1987

27 John Updike The Witches of Eastwick 20/19 AMER N11

28 Rudy Rucker 1 The Fourth Dimension 20/20 AMER ES3

29 Robert Peck 1 *A Day No Pigs Would Die 20/21 AMER N12

30 T.S. Eliot The Sacred Wood 20/22 AMER ES4

July 1987

31 Herman Melville 3 Benito Cereno 19/4 AMER N13

32 Dylan Thomas Collected Poems 20/4 ENG P1

33 Anita Brookner 1 Debut 20/23 AMER N14

34 Robert Asprin Little Myth Marker 20/24 AMER SF4

35 Mildred Taylor 1 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 20/25 AMER N15

36 Robert Parker Taming a Sea Horse 20/26 AMER MY1

37 Robert Peck 2 Soup on Wheels 20/27 AMER JUV2

38 Kathryn Kramer 1 Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space 20/28 AMER N16

39 Joyce Cary 2 Mister Johnson 20/5 ENG N17

August 1987

40 Ann Beattie 1 Love Always 20/29 AMER N18

41 Steve Erickson 1 Days Between Stations 20/30 AMER N19

42 Ursula LeGuin The Beginning Place 20/31 AMER SF5

43 Raymond Carver 1 Cathedral 20/32 AMER ST1

44 Theodore Sturgeon 1 More Than Human 20/33 AMER SF6

45 Richard Ford 1 The Sportswriter 20/34 AMER N20

46 ed. Madeline DeFrees Ploughshares Vol. 12, No. 4 20/35 AMER MAG1

& Tess Gallagher

47 Virginia Bradford 1 Laughter Outside [mss.] 20/6 ENG PL1

48 ed. Derek Walcott Ploughshares Vol. 13, No. 1 20/36 AMER MAG2

49 Banesh Hoffman 1 Strange Story of the Quantum 20/37 AMER PHY1

September 1987

50 O. Henry The Ransom of Red Chief 20/38 AMER ST2

51 Karl Popper & The Self and Its Brain/Dialogues 20/7 ENG PSY3

John Eccles

52 Vladimir Nabokov The Defense 20/1 RUSS N21

53 Buckminster Fuller 1 Operating Manual for Spaceship 20/39 AMER ES5

Earth

54 Cynthia Ozick 2 Bloodshed 20/40 AMER ST3

October 1987

55 John Gribbin 2 In Search of the Big Bang 20/8 ENG PHY2

56 Frank Herbert The Eyes of Heisenberg 20/41 AMER SF7

57 Frank Herbert Soul Catcher 20/42 AMER N22

58 Isaac Asimov The Stars, Like Dust 20/43 AMER SF8

59 Isaac Asimov The Currents of Space 20/44 AMER SF9

60 Isaac Asimov Pebble in the Sky 20/45 AMER SF10

November 1987

61 Willa Cather 2 My Mortal Enemy 20/46 AMER N23

62 ed. DeWitt Henry Ploughshares Vol. 13 No. 2/3 20/47 AMER MAG3

December 1987

63 Steve Erickson 2 Rubicon Beach 20/48 AMER N24

64 Clarence Day This Simian World 20/49 AMER ES6

65 Stanislaw Lem 5 Solaris 20/1 POL SF11

66 Robert Penn Warren Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 20/50 AMER P1

67 Ann Arensberg Group Sex 20/51 AMER N25

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1994. 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

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