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1986-1990

My 1990 Reading List

The Little Disturbances of Man
Grace Paley

In Defense of Animals
Peter Singer, ed

Europe, Europe
Hans Magnus Enzenberger

Painful Pleasures
Jane Bowles

Question and Answers on Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Animal Liberation
Peter Singer

AIDS
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Whiteness of Bones
Susanna Moore

Vineland
Thomas Pynchon

For Bread Alone
Mohammed Choukti/Paul Bowles

Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts

The Loony Bin Trip
Kate Millett

The Beginning and the End
Naguib Mahfouz

How to Get Your Kdis to Eat..But not Too Much
Ellyn Satter

Rolling Stone Magazine: the Uncensored Hisotry
Robert Draper

Black Women’s Health Book
Evelyn White, ed

Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera

The Judgment of Paris Gore Vidal

Lying
Sissela Bok

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

Old Money
Lacey Fosburgh

Light in August
William Faulkner

Private Lies
Frank Pittman

Beauty Secrets
Wendy Chapkis

The Fly on the Wall
Tony Hillerman

Falconer
John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Tracks
Louise Erdrich

Coyote Waits & Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Moby Dick
Melville

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijueles

The Exploration of the Colorado River & Its Canyons
JW Powell

Bullet Park
John Cheever

Lust
Susan Minot

An Adultery
Alexander Therous

The Dollmaker
Harriet Arnow

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Republic of Fear
Samir al-Khalil

Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf
Judith Miller Laurie Mlorie

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas Friedman

My 1989 Reading List

Love in the Days of Rage
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Watcher and Other Stories
Italo Calvino

The Beet Queen
Louise Erdich

Love Medicine
Louise Erdich

The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir

White Noise
Don Delillo

The Olive Fields
George Bates

Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood

Songs from the Alley
Kathleen Hirsch

The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Gertrude Stein

The Coming of the Americans
Gertrude Stein

The Middlemen and Other Stories
Bharati Mukherjee

The Wapshot Chronicles
John Cheever

Mr. Field’s Daughter
Richard Bausch

Cathedral
Raymond Carver

The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan

Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee

Two Serious Ladies
Jane Bowles

Femininity
Susan Brownmiller

My 1988 Reading List

Imagining Argentina
Lawrence Thornton

Where the Air is Clear
Carlos Fuentes

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

The Sixties
Todd Gitlin

The Saroyan Reader
William Saroyan

The Seven Ages
Eva Figes

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar

Re-Making Love
Ehrenreich, Hess, Jacobs

Cigarettes
Harry Matthews

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Voyage in the Dark
Jean Rhys

Quartet
Jean Rhys

After Leaving Mr. McKenzie
Jean Rhys

Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys

Mosquitoes
Faulkner

The Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

Gone to Soldiers
Marge Piercy

Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo
Ntozake Shangew

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa

Truth or Dare
Starhawk

The Joke
Milan Kundera

Love with a Few Hairs
Mohammed Mrabet

Remind Me to Murder You Later
Jim Boylan

The Waves
Virginia Woolf

Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
Marcel Pagnal

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Women Against Censorship
Varda Burstyn, ed

Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino

My 1987 Reading List

Destroy, She Said
Marguerite Duras

Fruit Palace
Charles Nicholl

Selling Culture
Debora Silverman

The Book of Daniel
EL Doctorow

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

Henry and June
Anais Nin

Bluebeard’s Egg
Margaret Atwood

Anywhere But Here
Mona Simpson

A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor

Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book of Dreams
Jack Kerouac

Gertrude
Hermann Hesse

Sex and Death of Age 14
Spalding Gray

The Creation of Patriarchy
Gerda Lerner

Visions of Cody
Jack Kerouac

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Everything that Rises Msut Converge
Flannery O’Conner

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

Face Value: The Politics of Beauty
Robin Lakoff and Roquel Scheer

The Spider’s House
Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles

The Spiral Dance
Starhawk

Collected Stories
Paul Bowles

It was Gonna Be Like Paris
Emily Listfield

Burmese Days
George Orwell

Knight’s Gambit
Faulkner

Tar Baby
Toni Morrison

My 1986 Reading List

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

Sex and Temperament
Margaret Mead

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Edie
Jean Stein and George Plimpton

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn
Miller

Jambalaya
Luisah Teish

The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Carolyn Chute

Scoundrel Time
Lillian Hellman

Chrome Yellow
Aldous Huxley

The Group
Mary McCarthy

Something Out There
Nadine Gordimer

Superior Women
Alice Adams

Less then Zero
Brett Easton Ellis

The Witches’ Dream
Florinda Donner

Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut

The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood

Housekeeping
Marilyn Robinson

The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike

World’s Fair
EL Doctorow

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Demon Box
Ken Kesey

Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes
CDB Bryan

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