Jan.
1 Carol Shields 2 The Box Garden CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1
2 The New Yorker, Fiction Issue, 12/25/95 AMER 20th 2 MAG 1
Feb.
3 Neal Stephenson 2 **Zodiac AMER 20th 3 NOVEL 2
4 T. Coraghessan Boyle 2 East is East AMER 20th 4 NOVEL 3
5 Alan Lightman 2 **Good Benito AMER 20th 5 NOVEL 4
6 Pete Dexter 1 **The Paperboy AMER 20th 6 NOVEL 5
7 Neal Stephenson 3 *** The Diamond Age AMER 20th 7 NOVEL 6
8 Jaan Kross 1 The Czar's Madman ESTONIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 7
March
9 Peter Hoeg 1 ***Smilla's Sense of Snow DANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 8
April
10 T. Corghessan Boyle 3 The Road to Wellville AMER 20th 8 NOVEL 9
11 Stephen King 1 Carrie AMER 20th 9 NOVEL 10
May
12 John Barnes 1 Mother of Storms AMER 20th 10 NOVEL 11
13 RWB Lewis The Jameses AMER 20th 11 BIO 1
June
14 Herman Melville Typee AMER 19th 1 NOVEL 12
15 Herman Melville Omoo AMER 19th 2 NOVEL 13
16 Sallie Seltzer 3 The Magazine AMER 20th 12 SCREEN 1
17 Allen Kurzweil 1 ***A Case of Curiosities AMER 20th 13 NOVEL 14
18 William James 2 ****Pragmatism AMER 20th 14 PHIL 1
19 Ursula K. Le Guin **A Fisherman of the Inland Sea AMER 20th 15 SCIFI 1
20 David Huddle 1 **Intimates AMER 20th 16 SHORT STORIES 1
21 W.P. Kinsella *The Dixon Cornbelt League CANADIAN 20th 2 SHORT STORIES 2
22 Josef Skvorecky 1 *The End of Lieutenant Boruvka CZECH 20th 1 NOVEL 15
23 Edmund Wilson 2 **Axel's Castle AMER 20th 18 CRITICISM 1
July
24 Ann Tyler 2 ***Ladder of Years [the ending doesn't work] AMER20th 19 NOVEL 16
25 Ben Mezrich 1 *Threshold AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 17
26 David Foster Wallace **1 Infinite Jest AMER 20th 21 NOVEL 18 (review)
27 Josef Skorecky 2 **The Miracle Game CZECH 20th 2 NOVEL 19
August
28 Graham Greene 2 **Our Man in Havana ENG 20th 1 NOVEL 20
29 Graham Greene 3 *The Honorary Consul ENG 20th 2 NOVEL 21
30 Graham Greene 4 The Heart of the Matter ENG 20th 3 NOVEL 22
31 Graham Greene 5 The Shipwrecked ENG 20th 4 NOVEL 23
32 Gertrude Stein 1 Three Lives AMER 20th 22 STORIES 3
33 Joseph Heller 2 Closing Time AMER 20th 23 NOVEL 24
34 Stephen King Green Mile #1 AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 25
35 Sebastian Japrisot 1 ***A Very Long Engagement FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 26
36 Mark Helprin 1 **Memoir from an Antproof Case AMER 20th 25 NOVEL 27
37 Maxine Hong Kingston 1 **Tripmaster Monkey AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 28
38 Scott Adams 1 **The Dilbert Principle AMER 20th 27 HUMOR 1
39 Tom Robbins ***Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 29
September
40 T. Coraghessan Boyle 4 **Water Music AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 30
41 Frank Baum The Emerald City of Oz [out loud] AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 31
42 Granta 54 -- Best of Young American Novelists AMER 20th 31 MAG 2
October
43 John Updike **The Centaur AMER 20th 32 NOVEL 32
44 Robert Penn Warren ***Talking With Robert Penn Warren (ed. Watkins et al.) AMER 20th 33 CRIT 1
November
45 T. Coraghessan Boyle 5 *World's End AMER 20th 34 NOVEL 33
46 Gail Godwin 1 ***The Good Husband AMER 20th 35 NOVEL 34
47 Heinrich Boll 1 The Clown GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 35
48 Nadine Gordimer 1 None to Accompany Me S. AFRICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 36
49 Frank Baum The Patchwork Girl of Oz [out loud] AMER 20th 36 NOVEl 37
December
50 Michael Ondaatje 1 ***The English Patient 20th SRI LANKA 1 CANADIAN 3 NOVEL 38
51 Tom Robbins 3 *Jitterbug Perfume AMER 20th 37 NOVEL 39
52 David Quammen 3 ***Song of the Dodo AMER 20th 38 BIOLOGY 1
53 Steve Erickson 5 ***Arc d'X AMER 20th 39 NOVEL 40
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