Jan.
1 Joseph Conrad ***Victory ENG 20th 1 NOVEL 1
2 Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest ENG 20th 2 SHORT STORIES 1
3 Berthold Brecht Galileo GER 20th 1 PLAY
Feb.
4 Joseph Conrad Secret Sharer ENG 20th 3 NOVEL 2
5 Joseph Conrad The End of the Tether ENG 20th 4 NOVEL 3
March
6 Eduard Morike Mozart's Journey to Prague GER 19th 1 NOVEL4
7 Danilo Kis The Encyclopedia of the Dead YUGO 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 2
8 Calvin and Hobbes AMER 20th1 HUMOR1
9 Ethan Canin 2 ***Blue River AMER 20th2 NOVEL 5
10 Oliver Sacks 1 ***An Anthropologist on Mars AMER 20th3 ESSAYS1
April
11 William Saroyan 1 ***The Human Comedy AMER 20th4 NOVEL 6
12 Richard Selzer ***Down from Troy AMER 20th5 AUTOBIO 1
13 Nicholas Negroponte 1 ***Being Digital AMER 20th6 ESSAY1
May
14 Lawrence Norfolk 1 Lempriere's Dictionary ENG 20th 5 NOVEL 7
15 Stanislaw Lem Memoirs Found in a Bathtub POL 20th 1 NOVEL 8
16 Fukuyama 1 ***** The End of History and the Last Man AMER 20th 8 ESSAY2
June
17 Nicholson Baker 3 ***Fermata AMER 20th 9 NOVEL 9
18 Howard Norman 1 ***The Bird Artist AMER 20th 10 NOVEL 10
19 Isabel Allende 1 Of Love and Shadows CHILE 20th 1 NOVEL 11
20 Jane Hamilton 1 ****A Map of the World AMER 20th 11 NOVEL 12
21 John Barth Chimera AMER 20th 12 NOVEL 13
July
22 Eudora Welty 2 ***One Writer's Beginnings AMER 20th 13 ESSAY 3
23 Richard Bear 1 **Desire for the Land AMER 20th 14 POETRY 1
24 D.M. Thomas Selected Poems ENG 20th 6 POETRY 2
25 Nicholson Baker ****Room Temperature AMER 20th 15 NOVEL 14
26 Richard Powers 5 ***Galatea 2.2 AMER 20th 16 NOVEL 15
27 Nicholson Baker ***U and I AMER 20th 17 NOVEL 16
28 Frank Baum Land of Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 18 NOVEL 17
29 Herman Melville ***Bartleby AMER 19th 1 NOVEL 18
30 Herman Melville **The Encantadas AMER 19th 2 NOVEL 19
31 Herman Melville ****Benito Cereno AMER 19th 3 NOVEL 20
32 Frank Baum Ozma of Oz [send time, aloud] AMER 20th 19 NOVEL 21
33 Neal Stephenson ***Snow Crash AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 22
August
34 Ellen Gilchrist **Light Can Be Both Wave and Partice AMER 20th 21 SHORT STORIES 3
35 Nayantara Sahgal ***Mistaken Identity INDIA 20th 1 NOVEL 23
36 James Hogan Out of Time AMER 20th 22 NOVEL 24
37 Herman Melville The Confidence Man AMER 19th 4 NOVEL 25
38 Milan Kundera **The Art of the Novel CZECH 20th 1 ESSAY4
39 John Gardner Grendel AMER 20th 23 NOVEL 26
40 Frank Baum Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 27
41 James Hogan *Realtime Interrupt AMER 20th 25 NOVEL 28
42 Frank Baum The Road to Oz [second time, aloud] AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 29
September
43 Stanley G. Crawford 1 *Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine AMER 20th 27 NOVEL 30
44 Naguib Mahfouz 1 **The Journey of Ibn Fattouma EGYPTIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 31
45 Thomas Williams 1 *****Leah, New Hampshire AMER 20th 28 SHORT STORIES 4
October
46 John Irving ***A Son of the Circus AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 32
47 Robert Asprin Sweet Myth-tery of Life AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 33
48 Kristin McCloy 1 Some Girls AMER 20th 31 NOVEL 34
49 Carol Shields 1 ***** The Stone Diaries AMER 20th 32 NOVEL 35
November
50 Marta Morazzoni 2 *****The Invention of Truth ITAL 20th 1 NOVEL 36
51 T. Coraghessan Boyle 1 ***Greasy Lake AMER 20th 33 SHORT STORIES 5
52 D.M. Thomas ***Eating Pavlova ENG 20th 7 NOVEL 37
December
53 Evelyn Lau 1 Fresh Girls CANDIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 6
54 John Dufresne 1 *****Louisiana Power and Light AMER 20th 34 NOVEL 38
55 Jack Finney 2 From Time to Time AMER 20th 35 NOVEL 39
56 Louise Edrich 4 *****The Bingo Palace AMER 20th 36 NOVEL 40
57 Louis de Bernieres 1 *****Corelli's Mandolin ENG 20th 8 NOVEL 41
58 J.M. Coetzee 1 The Master of Petersburg S.AFRICA 20th 1 NOVEL 42
59 Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County AMER 20th 37 NOVEL 43
60 Ethan Canin 3 **The Palace Thief AMER 20th 38 SHORT STORIES 7
61 Richard Dawkins 1 ***River Out of Eden ENG 20th 9 ESSAY 5