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READING 1988

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1988. 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 Erma Bombeck Family -- Ties that Bind and Gag 20/1 AMER HUM1

2 Robert Asprin Myth Inc. Link 20/2 AMER SF1

3 Russell Hoban ***Turtle Diary 20/1 ENG N1

4 Gary Richmond 1 View from the Zoo (Claude friend)20/3 AMER SCI1

5 Quentin Reynolds 1 The Wright Brothers (aloud) 20/4 AMER HIS1

February 1988

6 Richard Powers 1 ***Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance 20/5 AMER N2

7 Margaret Cousins 1 Thomas Alva Edison (aloud) 20/6 AMER HIS2

8 Hazel Aird Henry Ford (aloud) 20/7 AMER HIS3

March 1988

9 Ruth Plumly Thompson The Giant Horse of Oz (aloud) 20/8 AMER JUV1

10 Milan Kundera 1 ***The Unbearable Lightness of Being 20/1 CZECH N3

11 Lillian Hellman The Children's Hour (performance)20/9 AMER PL1

12 Sidney Sheldon 1 Windmills of the Gods 20/10 AMER N4

April

13 Anthony Burgess 3 ReJoyce 20/2 ENG CRT1

14 Nathaniel Hawthorne Blithedale Romance` 19/1 AMER N5

15 Nathaniel Hawthorne House of the Seven Gables 19/2 AMER N6

May

16 Martin Heiddegger 1 On the Way to Language 20/1 GER PHL1

17 Stephen Jay Gould 1 Ever Since Darwin 20/11 AMER SC2

18 Keri Hulme 1 *The Bone People 20/1 NZ N7

19 Vadimir Nabokov The Gift 20/1 RUSS N8

20 Hermann Broch 1 Sleepwalkers: The Romantic 20/2 GER N9

21 Hermann Broch 2 Sleepwalkers: The Anarchist 20/3 GER N10

June

22 Milan Kundera 2 Life is Elsewhere 20/2 CZECH N11

23 Hermann Broch 3 Sleepwalkers: The Realist 20/4 GER N12

24 Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 20/3 ENG SF2

25 Thomas Berger 1 Crazy in Berlin 20/12 AMER N13

September

26 Tom Dykstra 1 Heresy on Mount Athos [mss.] 20/13 AMER HIS4

27 Andre Dubus 2 The Last Worthless Evening 20/14 AMER ST1

28 Olivia Manning 1 The Great Fortune (Balkan) 20/4 ENG N14

29 Olivia Manning 2 The Spoilt City (Balkan) 20/5 ENG N15

30 Olivia Manning 3 Friends and Heroes (Balkan) 20/6 ENG N16

31 Gabriel Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 20/1 COL N17

32 Olivia Manning 4 The Danger Tree (Levant) 20/7 ENG N18

33 Olivia Manning 5 The Battle Lost and Won (Levant) 20/8 ENG N19

34 Olivia Manning 6 The Sum of Things (Levant) 20/9 ENG N20

October

35 Fred Waitzkin 1 Searching for Bobby Fischer 20/15 AMER CH1

36 Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Literature 20/2 RUSS CRT2

37 Bruce Duffy 1 *The World as I Found It 20/16 AMER N21

November

38 Louise Erdrich 2 *The Beet Queen 20/17 AMER N22

39 Ludwig Wittgenstein 1 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 20/1 AUST PH2

40 Robert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten 20/18 AMER ES1

December

41 Sharyn McCrumb1 Bimbos of the Death Sun 20/19 AMER MYS1

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