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READING 1997

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1997. 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 Edith Wharton 2 House of Mirth AMER 20th 1 NOVEL 1
2 Frank Baum Tik-Tok of Oz AMER 20th 2 CHILDREN 1
3 Scott Adams 2 Dogbert's Management Handbook AMER 20th 3 HUMOR 1
4 Herodotus 1 ***The History (AKA -- Persian Wars) GREEK BC 1 HISTORY 1
5 Fernando Arrabal 1 The Red Virgin SPANISH 1 NOVEL 2

Feb.

6 Stephen Jay Gould **Full House AMER 20th 4 SCIENCE 1 review
7 Richard Elliott Friedman 1 Who Wrote the Bible? AMER 20th 5 HISTORY 2
8 Alex Garland 1 The Beach AMER 20th 6 NOVEL 3
9 Frank Baum 9 The Scarecrow of Oz AMER 20th 7 CHILDREN 2
10 Amy Tan 3 ***Hundred Secret Senses AMER 20th 8 NOVEL 4
11 Seamus Heaney 1 Crediting Poetry IRISH 20th 1 ESSAY 1
12 Robert B. Parker Walking Shadow AMER 20th 9 MYSTERY 1
13 James Carroll 5 ** American Requiem AMER 20th 10 BIOGRAPHY 1
14 Richard Wilbur 2 *New and Collected Poems AMER 20th 11 POETRY 1

March

15 Umberto Eco 3 Island of the Day Before ITALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 5
16 Geoffrey Moore 1 ***Crossing the Chasm AMER 20th 12 BUSINESS 1
17 Elaine Pagels 1 The Gnostic Gospels AMER 20th 13 RELIGION/HISTORY 2
18 John Dufresne 2 **The Way that Water Enters Stone AMER 20th 14 SHORT STORIES 1 review
19 John Irving **Trying to Save Piggy Sneed AMER 20th 15 ESSAY 2 review
20 Peter Hoeg 2 *The History of Danish Dreams DANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 6
21 Graham Swift 2 Last Orders ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 7
22 Frank Baum Rinkitink in Oz (outloud) AMER 20th 16 CHILDREN 3
23 James Redfield 1 *The Celestine Prophecy AMER 20th 17 NOVEL/RELIGION 8
24 Elaine Pagels 2 * The Origin of Satan AMER 20th 18 RELIGION/HISTORY 3
25 Howard Norman 2 Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad CANADIAN 1 SHORT STORIES 2
26 Richard Selzer 6 *Raising the Dead AMER 20th 19 BIOGRAPHY 2
27 John Dufresne 3 **Love Warps the Mind a Little AMER 20th 20 NOVEL 9

April

28 Martin Seymour-Smith 1 Gnosticism: the Path of Inner Knowledge AMER 20th 21 RELIGION/HISTORY 4
29 Evan Connell 1 The Alchymist's Journal AMER 20th 22 NOVEL 10
30 Cherry Gilchrist 1 Theosophy: The Wisdom of the Ages AMER 20th 23 RELIGION/HISTORY 5
31 Tom Clancy 1 Debt of Honor AMER 20th 24 NOVEL 11
32 J.M.G. Le Clezio 1 The Prospector FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 12
33 Richard Selzer **Imagine a Woman AMER 20th 25 SHORT STORIES 3
34 Steve Erickson 6 *Amnesiascope AMER 20th 26 NOVEL 13
35 Frank Baum 11 The Lost Princess of Oz (outloud) AMER 20th 27 CHILDREN 4
36 David Markson 1 *Wittgenstein's Mistress AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 14
37 Cathleen Schine 1 Rameau's Niece AMER 20th 28 NOVEL 15
38 Peter Hoeg 3 The Woman and the Ape DANISH 20th 2 NOVEL 16
39 Cormac McCarthy 1 *Blood Meridian AMER 20th 29 NOVEL 17 review
40 Ursula LeGuin *Tehanu AMER 20th 30 NOVEL 18

May

41 Milan Kundera *Slowness CZECH 20th 1 NOVEL 19
42 Sebastien Japrisot 2 *The Sleeping Car Murders FRENCH 20th 2 NOVEL 20
43 Andrei Bitov 1 The Monkey Link RUSS 20th 1 NOVEL 21
44 Frank Baum The Tin Woodman of Oz (out loud) AMER 20th 30 CHILDREN 5
45 Margaret Atwood 2 Robber Bride CANADIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 22
46 Peter Hoeg 4 *Borderliners DENMARK 20th 3 NOVEL 23
47 Joseph Roth 1 The Hotel Savoy AUSTRIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 4
48 Kazuo Ishiguro 1 **The Unconsoled ENGLISH 20th 2 NOVEL 24

June

49 Stephen Kern 1 ***The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 AMERICAN 20th 31 HISTORY 6
50 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 Nature AMERICAN 19th 1 ESSAY 3
51 Thomas Jefferson 1 Autobiography AMERICAN 19th 2 BIOGRAPHY 3
52 Geoffrey Moore 2 ***Inside the Tornado AMERICAN 20th 32 BUSINESS 2
53 Kirsten Bakis 1 Lives of the Monster Dogs AMERICAN 20th 33 NOVEL 25
54 James Gleick 2 ***Genius AMERICAN 20th 34 BIOGRAPHY 4
55 Nicholson Baker 6 ***The Size of Thoughts AMERICAN 20th 35 ESSAY 4

July

56 Norman MacLean 1 **A River Runs Through It AMERICAN 20th 36 SHORT STORIES 5
57 John Hagel & Arthur Armstrong Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities AMERICAN 20th 37 BUSINESS 3
58 Thomas Mandel & Gerard Van der Leun Rules of the Net AMERICAN 20th 38 BUSINESS 4 INTERNET 1
59 Frank Baum The Magic of Oz [out loud] AMERICAN 20th 39 CHILDREN 6
60 Jared Diamond 1 ***The Third Chimpanzee AMERICAN 20th 40 SCIENCE 2
61 Suetonius 1 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ROMAN 2nd 1 HISTORY 7
62 Ray Bradbury A Graveyard for Lunatics AMERICAN 20th 41 NOVEL 26

August

63 Ray Bradbury I Sing the Body Electric AMERICAN 20th 42 Short Stories 6
64 New Yorker, Indian Fiction Issue, June 23 & 30, 1997 INDIAN 20th 1 Short Stories 7
65 Julian Barnes Letters from London ENGLISH 20th 3 ESSAY 5
66 Frank Baum Glinda of Oz [out loud] AMERICAN 20th 43 CHILDREN 7
67 Donald Antrim 1 The Hundred Brothers AMERICAN 20th 44 NOVEL 27
68 Rick Moody 1 ***Purple America AMERICAN 20th 45 NOVEL 28
69 David Foster Wallace 2 The Broom of the System AMERICAN 20th 46 NOVEL 29
70 Jonathan Franzen 1 *The Twenty-seventh City AMERICAN 20th 47 NOVEL 30
71 Lytton Strachey 1 Eminent Victorians ENGLISH 20th 4 BIOGRAPHY 5
72 Orson Scott Card 4 Seventh Son AMERICAN 20th 48 NOVEL 31
73 David Guterson 1 **Snow Falling on Cedars AMERICAN 20th 49 NOVEL 32
74 Jane Hamilton 2 **The Book of Ruth AMERICAN 20th 50 NOVEL 33
75 Howard Rheingold 2 **The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier AMERICAN 20th BUSINESS 5 INTERNET 2
76 Halldor Laxness 1 **Independent People by Halldor Laxness ICELAND 20th 1 NOVEL 34
77 Sallie Seltzer **Crazy Baby [manuscript] AMERICAN 20th 51 SCREENPLAY 1

September

78 Francisco Goldman 1 ***The Ordinary Seaman AMERICAN 20th 52 NOVEL 34
79 David Foster Wallace 3 *A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again AMERICAN 20th 53 ESSAY 5
80 Gail Godwin 2 Father Melancholy's Daughter AMERICAN 20th 54 NOVEL 35

October

81 Kurt Vonnegut 14 Player Piano AMERICAN 20th 55 NOVEL 36
82 John Barth 4 Giles Goat-Boy AMERICAN 20th 56 NOVEL 37
83 Robert Musil 4 Three Women AUSTRIAN 20th 1 SHORT STORIES 7
84 Gunter Grass Tin Drum GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 38
85 Laszlo Tikos 1 **Gogol's Art: Search for Identity HUNGARY 20th 1 CRITICISM 1
86 Saul Bellow 6 **The Adventures of Augie March AMERICAN 20th 56 NOVEL 39
87 Mark Leyner 1 My Cousin the Gastroenterologist AMERICAN 20th 57 NOVEL 40

November

88 Rick Moody 2 * The Ice Storm AMERICAN 20th 58 NOVEL 41
89 Rick Moody 3 Garden State AMERICAN 20th 59 NOVEL 42
90 Kurt Vonnegut 15 ***Timequake AMERICAN 20th 60 NOVEL 43 review
91 Kurt Vonnegut 16 *Welcome to the Monkey House AMERICAN 20th 61 SHORT STORIES 8
92 Arundhati Roy 1 **The God of Small Things INDIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 44
93 George MacDonald Fraser 1 Flashman's Lady ENGLISH 20th 5 NOVEL 45
94 Francisco Goldman 2 ***The Long Night of the White Chickens AMERICAN 20th 62 NOVEL 46

December

95 Annie Proulx 1 ***The Shipping News AMERICAN 20th 63 NOVEL 47
96 Peter Matthiessen 1 Baikal: The Sacred Sea of Siberia AMERICAN 20th 64 SCIENCE 3
97 Steven Pinker 1 ***The Language Instinct AMERICAN 20th 65 SCIENCE 4 review
98 Daniel Defoe 1 A Journal of the Plague Year ENGLISH 18th 1 NOVEL 48 review
99 Italo Calvino 1 Invisible Cities ITALIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 49
100 Kaye Gibbons 1 **A Virtuous Woman AMERICAN 20th 66 NOVEL 50
101 Pam Dixon 1 Virtual College AMERICAN 20th 67 INTERNET 3
102 Scott Adams 3 *The Dilbert Future AMERICAN 20th 68 HUMOR 2 review
103 Kurt Vonnegut 17 *Palm Sunday AMERICAN 20th 69 ESSAY 5
104 Robert Parker 21 Paper Doll AMERICAN 20th 70 MYSTERY 2 review

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