January
1 Robert Parker 22 Thin Air AMER 20th 1 MYSTERY 1 review
2 Sebastian Faulks 1 Birdsong ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 1
3 Robert Parker 23 Pastime AMER 20th 2 MYSTERY 2 review
4 Robert Parker 24 Chance AMER 20th 3 MYSTERY 3 review
5 David Hodges 1 From Village Green (on the Web) AMERICAN 20th 4 POETRY 1
6 Kurt Vonnegut 18 Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons AMERICAN 20th 5 ESSAY 1
7 Alain de Botton 1 ***How Proust Can Change Your Life ENGLISH 20th 2 ESSAY2 review
8 Chinua Achebe 1 **Things Fall Apart IBO 20th 1 NOVEL 2 review
9 David Quammen 4 The Flight of the Iguana AMER 20th 6 SCIENCE 1 ESSAY3
10 Kenzaburo Oe 2 J JAPAN 20th 1 NOVEL 3
11 Kenzaburo Oe 3 Seventeen JAPAN 20th 2 NOVEL 4
12 Daniel Defoe 3 Moll Flanders ENGLISH 18th 1 NOVEL 5 review
13 Dikkon Eberhart 1 On the Verge AMER 20th 7 NOVEL 6 review
February
14 Hilton Obenzinger 1 Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco AMER 20th 8 STORIES 1
15 Bill Eidson 3 *The Little Brother AMER 20th 9 NOVEL 7
16 Barbara Seels and Rita Richey Instructional Technology: The Definition and Domains of the Field AMER 20th 10 EDUCATION 1
17 Dikkon Eberhart 2 **Paradise AMER 20th 11 NOVEL 8 review
18 Daniel Dennett 2 **Consciousness Explained AMER 20th 12 SCIENCE 2 ESSAY 4 review
19 Mark Twain 6 Innocents Abroad volume 1 AMER 19th 1 ESSAY 5
20 Mark Twain 7 Innocents Abroad volume 2 AMER 19th 2 ESSAY 6
21 Mark Twain 8 ***The Prince and the Pauper AMER 19th 3 NOVEL 9
March
22 Mark Twain 9 ***Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court AMER 19th 4 NOVEL 10
23 Mark Twain 10 **Roughing It AMER 19th 5 ESSAY 7
24 Mark Twain 11 Tom Sawyer Abroad AMER 19th 6 NOVEL 11
25 Mark Twain 12 Tom Sawyer Detective AMER 19th 7 NOVEL 12
26 Mark Twain 13 Mark Twain's Own Autobiography (the chapters from the North American Review) AMER 20th 13 ESSAY 8
27 Linda Hall 1 **Margaret's Peace CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 13
28 Alain de Botton 2 *Kiss and Tell ENGLISH 20th 3 NOVEL 14
29 Alain de Botton 3 **The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 15
30 Charles Frazier 1 *Cold Mountain AMERICAN 20th 13 NOVEL 16
31 Mark Twain 14 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories AMER 20th 14 STORIES 2
32 Mark Twain 15 Merry Tales AMER 19th 8 STORIES 3
33 Mark Twain 16 The $30,000Bequest and Other Stories AMER 19th 9 STORIES 4
April
34 Alain de Botton 4 *On Love ENGLISH 20th 5 NOVEL 17
35 Linda Hall 2 November Veil CANADIAN 20th 2 MYSTERY 4
36 Mark Twain 17 *Joan of Arc AMERICAN 20th 15 NOVEL 18
37 Brooks Hansen 1 ***The Chess Garden (intriguing, worth reading a second time) AMERICAN 20th 16 NOVEL 19
38 Raymond Radiguet 1 Le Diable au Corps (en francais) FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 20
39 Olivia Coolidge 1 The Trojan War (second time, out loud) AMERICAN 20th 17 HISTORY 1
40 Polybius 1 The Rise of the Roman Empire GREEK BC 1 HISTORY 2
May
41 Charles Dickens 9 ***Our Mutual Friend ENGLISH 19th 1 NOVEL 21
42 Sebastian Japrisot 3 *Trap for Cinderella FRENCH 20th 2 MYSTERY 5
43 Sebastian Japrisot 4 *The Lady in the Car FRENCH 20th 3 MYSTERY 6
44 Michael Ondaatje 2 *In the Skin of a Lion CANADIAN 20th 3 NOVEL 22
45 D. M. Thomas 9 Lady with a Laptop ENGLISH 20th 6 NOVEL 23
46 Anne Rice 1 Taltos AMERICAN 20th 18 NOVEL 24
47 Sebastian Japrisot 5 **One Deadly Summer FRENCH 20th 4 MYSTERY 7
48 Karin Rex 1 Internet Search Techniques: ZDU Student Manual AMERICAN 20th 18 INTERNET 1
49 Louis de Bernieres 2 *Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord ENGLISH 20th 7 NOVEL 25
June
50 John Irving 9 ****A Widow for One Year AMERICAN 20th 19 NOVEL 26 review
51 David Foster Wallace 4 Girl with Curious Hair AMERICAN 20th 20 NOVEL 27
52 Louis de Bernieres 3 *The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts ENGLISH 20th 8 NOVEL 28
53 Peter Clemente 1 The State of the Net AMERICAN 20th 21 INTERNET 2 review
54 Livy 1 *Early History of Rome ROMAN 1 BC 1 HISTORY 3
55 ed. Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs AMERICAN 20th 22 INTERNET 3 review
July
56 Larry Chase 1 Essential Business Tactics for the Net AMERICAN 20th 22 INTERNET 4 review
57 Charles Dickens 10 ***Bleak House ENGLISH 19th 2 NOVEL 29
58 Father Jerome Lobo 1 Voyage to Abyssinia (electronic) PORTUGUESE 17th 1 HISTORY 4
59 John Buchan 1 Prester John (electronic) ENGLISH 19th 3 NOVEL 30
60 Sir John Mandeville 1 Travels of Sir John Mandeville (electronic) ENGLISH 14th 1 HISTORY 5
61 Mary V. Dearborn 1 Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant AMERICAN 20th 23 BIOGRAPHY 1
62 Dashiell Hammett 2 Red Harvest AMERICAN 20th 24 MYSTERY 8
63 Dashiell Hammett 3 The Maltese Falcon AMERICAN 20th 25 MYSTERY 9
64 Kara Swisher 1 aol.com AMERICAN 20th 26 INTERNET 5 review
65 Arturo Perez-Reverte **The Club Dumas SPANISH 20th 1 NOVEL 31 review
66 Xenophon 1 The Anabasis GREEK BC 2 HISTORY 6
August
67 Richard Powers 6 ****Gain AMERICAN 20th 27 NOVEL 32 review
68 Stepan Chapman 1 Troika AMERICAN 20th 28 NOVEL 33review
69 Thucydides 1 The Peloponnesian War [second time] GREEK BC 3 HISTORY 7
70 Salman Rushdie 2 **Midnight's Children INDIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 34 review
71 Steven Pinker 2 ****How the Mind Works AMERICAN 20th 29 SCIENCE 3 review
72 Alexandre Dumas 3 ***Les Trois Mousquetaires (en francais) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 35
73 James Martin 1 *Cybercorp AMERICAN 20th 30 INTERNET 6 review
September
74 Tom Robbins 4 **Skinny Legs and All AMERICAN 20th 31 NOVEL 35 review
75 Arturo Perez-Reverte 2 **The Flanders Panel SPANISH 20th 2 NOVEL 36 review
76 Don DeLillo 2 ****Underworld AMERICAN 20th 32 NOVEL 37
77 Alexandre Dumas 4 Vingt Ans Apres (first sequel to 3 Musketeers (en francais) FRENCH 19th 2 NOVEL 38
78 Albert Camus 8 ***Le Premier Homme (The First Man) (en francais) FRENCH 20th 5 ALGERIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 39
79 Arturo Perez-Reverte 3 **The Seville Communion SPANISH 20th 3 NOVEL 40
80 Lady Murasaki 1 *The Tale of Genji JAPANESE 11th 1 NOVEL 41
October
81 Linda Hall 3 August Gamble CANADIAN 20th 4 MYSTERY 10
82 Richard Selzer 9 Doctor Stories AMERICAN 20th 33 SHORT STORIES 1
November
83 Ian McEwan 1 **The Daydreamer [outloud] ENGLISH 20th 9 SHORT STORIES 2
84 Rebecca Wells 1 **Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood AMERICAN 20th 34 NOVEL 42
85 Granta 64 -- Russia: the Wild East ENGLISH 20th 10 MAGAZINE 1 review
86 Foreign Affairs September/October 1998 AMERICAN 20th 34 MAGAZINE 2 review
December
87 John Updike 11 Bech at Bay AMERICAN 20th 35 NOVEL 42
88 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game (second time) (outloud) AMERICAN 20th 36 NOVEL 43
89 Kevin Kelly 1 New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World AMERICAN 20th 37 INTERNET 6
90 Brian Hall 1 **The Saskiad AMERICAN 20th 38 NOVEL 44
91 James Morrow 1 Towing Jehovah AMERICAN 20th 39 NOVEL 45
92 Susan Minot 2 ****Evening AMERICAN 20th 40 NOVEL 46
93 Andrea Barrett 1 Voyage of the Narwhal AMERICAN 20th 41 NOVEL 47
94 Kim Stanley Robinson 1 Antarctica AMERICAN 20th 42 NOVEL 48
95 Elmore Leonard 1 Gold Coast AMERICAN 20th 43 MYSTERY 11
96 Elmore Leonard 2 The Moonshine War AMERICAN 20th 44 MYSTERY 12
97 Elmore Leonard 3 *Glitz AMERICAN 20th 45 MYSTERY 13
98 Hubert Bermont 1 How to Become a Successful Consultant in Your Own Field AMERICAN 20th 46 BUSINESS
99 Elizabeth Peters 1The Dead Sea Cipher AMERICAN 20th 47 MYSTERY14
100 Ian McEwan 2 *Amsterdam ENGLISH 20th 11 NOVEL 49
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