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1991-1995

My 1995 Reading List

Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott

In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O’Brien

Stranger in Two Worlds
Jean Harris

Dead Babies
Martin Amis

The Lyre of Orpheus
Robertson Davies

The Alienist
Caleb Carr

Time and Again
Jack Finney

The Eva Luna Stories
Isabel Allende

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton

Body and Soul
Frank Conroy

A Curtain of Green
Eudora Welty

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Small World
David Lodge

Running Dog
Don Delillo

Stones for Ibarra
Harriett Doer

An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton

The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies

Moo
Jane Smiley

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

The Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton

The Waterworks
E.L. Doctorow

Changing Places
David Lodge

The Bostonians
Henry James

The Palace Thief
Ethan Canin

Nice Work
David Lodge

Monopolies of Loss
Adam Mars-Jones

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton

Black Boy
Richard Wright

No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe

The Stone Diaries
Carol Shield

Miss Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Independence Day
Richard Ford

Therapy
David Lodge

Travels with My Aunt
Graham Greene

Strip Tease
Carl Hiassen

Black Betty
Walter Mosely

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway

Tourist Season
Carl Hiassen

The 158-pound Marriage
John Irving

Stormy Weather
Carl Hiassen

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Mystery Ride
Robert Boswel

The Sixteen Pleasures
Richard Hellenga

McGarr and the Sienes Conspiracy
Bartholomew Gill

Barn Blind
Jane Smiley

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Resurrection
Tolstoy

Under the Frog
Tibor Fisher

My 1994 Reading List

Race Matters
Cornel West

Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina Garera

Consuming Passions
Brown and Jasper, ed

Bailey’s Cafe
Gloria Naylor

Closing Time
Lacey Fosburgh

Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker

Paradox of Plenty
Harvey Levenstein

Enemies, A Love Story
I.B. Singer

Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison

Never Satisfied
Hillel Schwartz

Never Too Thin
Roberta Seid

Very Old Bones
William Kennedy

Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood

Seraph on the Suwanee
Zora Neale Hurston

The Infinite Plan
Isabel Allende

The Overweight Society
Peter Wyden

Diet and Die
Carl Malmberg

Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Jennie Gerhardt
Theodore Dreiser

Mama Day
Gloria Naylor

Sugar and Other Stories
A.S. Byatt

The Good Terrorist
Doris Lessing

Emma
Jane Austen

Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro

All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy

The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx

Sanctuary
William Faulkner

Trash
Dorothy Allison

The Cider House Rules
John Irving

Postcards
Annie Proulx

A Big Storm Knocked It Over
Laurie Colwin

The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy

Tidewater Morning
William Styron

The American Way of Death
Jessica Mitford

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Poison Penmanship
Jessica Mitford

Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore

The Road to Wellville
T. Coraghassen Boyle

Money
Martin Amis

The Fermata
Nicholson Baker

Vox
Nicholson Baker

The Obsession
Kim Chernin

The Damned and the Beuatiful
Paula Fass

Womanhood in America
Mary Ryan

Tempest Tost
Robertson Davies

Leaven of Malice
Robertson Davies

A Mixture of Frailties
Roberton Davies

The Plastic Age, 1917-1930
Robert Sklar, ed.

All Consuming Images
Stewart Ewen

Son of the Circus
John Irving

Consumed
Michele Stacey

Muscle
Samuel Fussman

Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies

In a Country of Mothers
A.M. Holmes

The Mezzanine
Nicholas Baker

Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Damned and the Beautiful
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Open Secrets
Alice Munro

Moronic Inferno
Martin Amis

Love in a Dry Season
Shelby Foote

Serve it Forth
MFK Fisher

The Gastronomical Me
MFK Fisher

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors
Susan Sontag

How to Cook a Wolfe
MFK Fisher

An Alphabet for Gourmets
MFK Fisher

Talk Dirty to Me
Sallie Tisdale

What’s Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies

Operating Instructions
Anne Lamott

Skin Tight
Carl Hiassen

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital
Lorrie Moore

White People
Alan Garganus

My 1993 Reading List

A Woman’s Book of Choices
Rebecca Shalker and Carole Downer

The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver

The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiesen

A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Cowboys are My Weakness
Pam Houston

Sugar Street
Naguib Mahfouz

All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner

Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood

A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

Jazz
Toni Morrison

American Beauty
Lois Banner

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving

Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

The Manticore
Robertson Davies

World of Wonders
Robertson Davies

Genie
Russ Rymer

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien
Oscar Hijuelas

Intruder in the Dust
William Faulkner

Legs
William Kennedy

Ironweed
William Kennedy

Fasting Girls
Joan Blumberg

Jordan County
Shelby Foote

Cities on a Hill
Frances Fitzgerald

The Passion
Jeanette Winterson

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

At Paradise Gate
Jane Smiley

Their Eyes were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Duplicate Keys
Jane Smiley

Follow Me Down
Shelby Foote

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Joan Chase

The Professor’s House
Willa Cather

The Secret History
Donna Tartt

Ordinary Love and Good Will
Jane Smiley

Dark Wind
Tony Hillerman

A River Runs through It
Norman Maclean

Not in Our Backyard
Tim Redmond and Marc Mowrey

Another Country
James Baldwin

The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon
Hanmarch

Unbearable Weight
Susan Bordo

Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Chandler

Sophie’s Choice
William Styron

Only Words
Catharine Mackinnon

Lie Down in Darkness
William Styron

Fairy Tale of New York
JP Donleavey

My 1992 Reading List

Timebends: A Life
Arthur Miller

If the River Was Whiskey
TC Boyle

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley

Moving the Mountain
Flora Davis

The Lost Father
Mona Simpson

Mating
Norman Rush

The War Against Women
Marilyn French

Discovering Homeopathy
Dana Ullman

Friend of my Youth
Alice Munro

Maus I
Art Spiegelman

Her Mother’s Daughter
Marilyn French

The Moons of Jupiter
Alice Munro

Writing Down the Blues
Natalie Goldberg

The Kitchen God’s Wife
Amy Tan

The Arabs
David Lamb

Body Traps
Judith Rodin

Health & Healing
Andrew Weil

Out of India
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Possession
AS Byatt

Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver

Women of Sand and Myrrh
Hanan Al-Shayk

The Living
Annie Dillard

When Food is Love
Geneen Roth

Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor

Overcoming Overeating Hirschman,
Munter & Hirschmann

Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating
Geneen Roth

Maus II
Art Spiegelman

Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Mary Gaitskill

My 1991 Reading List

Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz

Iraq: Eastern Flank of the Western World
Christine Moss Helms

Let it Come Down
Paul Bowles

Rumors of Peace
Ella Leffland

Sexual Anarchy
Elaine Showalter

Palace of Desire
Naguib Mahfouz

Persian Nights
Diane Johnson

Blow-Up and Other Stories
Julio Cortazar

Interview with History
Oriana Fallaci

Now You See It
Cornelia Nixon

Italian Days
Barbara Grizutti Harrison

Foucault’s Pendulum
Umberto Ecco

Skin
Guzio Malaparte

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

You Just Don’t Understand Me
Deborah Tannen

Girls in the Grass
Melanie Rae Thon

The Planets
James Finney Boylan

All My Friends are going to be Strangers
Larry McMurtry

Oh, What a Paradise It Seems
John Cheever

The Prussian Officer and Other
Stories DH Lawrence

The Flight of the Iguana
David Quammen

The Bone People
Keri Hume

Women Changing Work
Patricia Lunnenborg

The Desert Rose
Larry McMurtry

Some Can Whistle
Larry McMurtry

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
Dorothy Bryant

Drawing the Line
Samuel Gorovitz

Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry

India Gate
Lacey Fosburgh

The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Good Mother
Sue Miller

The Red and the Black
Stendhal

Vanity Fair
William Thackeray

A Midwife’s Diary
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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