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1996-2000

My 2000 Reading List

Dreams of My Russian Summer
Andre Makine

The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro

Midnight in Sicily
Peter Robb

The Delicate Prey
Paul Bowles

The Lover
Marguerite Duras

Run River
Joan Didion

A Street in Marrakesh
Elizabeth Fernea

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Haruki Murakami

The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Sebastian Faulks

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

George Eliot: The Last Victorian
Kathryn Hughes

Sostiene Pereira
Antonio Tabucchi

The Call of Stories
Robert Coles

Swimming Lessons
Rohinton Mistry

Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh

Tomcat in Love
Tim O’Brien

The End of the Affair
Graham Greene

Flux
Peggy Orenstein

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald

South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
Chris Stewart

Leviathan
Paul Auster

A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth

Moon Palace
Paul Auster

Blindness
Jose Saragado

At Heaven’s Gate
Robert Penn Warren

Candide
Voltaire

The Hours
Michael Cunningham

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing

The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick

Back in the World
Tobias Wolff

A Room with a View
E.M. Forster

King, Queen, Knave
Nabokov

Cherry
Mary Karr

The Mark of the Angel
Nancy Huston

My 1999 Reading List

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin
Nabokov

New York Trilogy
Paul Auster

Personal History
Katherine Graham

The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
Nawal El Saadawai

Ancient Evenings
Norman Mailer

Great Irish Writers
John McCarthy, ed.

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Fay Weldon

Central Square
George Packer

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

About a Boy
Nick Hornby

Il Conformista
Alberto Moravia

Kalimantaan
C.S. Godshalk

A Widow for One Year
John Irving

Cavedweller
Dorothy Allison

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Turn of the Century
Kurt Anderson

Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino

A Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Fall of the Sparrow
Robert Hellenga

Cairo: The City Victorious
Max Rodenbeck

Crossing the Channel
Julian Barnes

Babel Tower
A.S. Byatt

Are You Somebody
Nuala O’Faolain

Hand to Mouth
Paul Auster

Cristo si รจ Fermata a Eboli
Carlo Levi

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

The Man Who Ate Everything
Jeffrey Steingarten

Among the Thugs
Bill Buford

Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

My 1998 Reading List

The Recognitions
William Gaddis

Public Knowledge: The Social Dimension of Science
John Ziman

The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

Paradise
Toni Morrison

Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres

The Odyssey
Homer (Robert Fagles trans)

Because They Wanted To
Mary Gaitskill

True North
Jill Ker Conway

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Jan Potocki

The Angel of Darkness
Caleb Carr

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

Women with Men
Richard Ford

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics etc
Frank Sulloway

Bridget Jones’ Diary
Helen Fielding

The Anatomy of Love
Helen Fisher

How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton

Susie Bright’s Sexual State of the Union
Susie Bright

Lives of the Monster Dogs
Kirsten Bakis

Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks

Harafish
Naguib Mahfouz

Getting In
James Finny Boylan

The Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhart

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

For Kings and Planets
Ethan Canin

La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucria
Dacia Maraini

Medieval in L.A.
Jim Paul

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
Jim Paul

What’s Called Love
Jim Paul (ugh)

My 1997 Reading List

Le Divorce
Diane Johnson

The Human Factor
Graham Greene

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Sebastien Japrisot

Eat Fat
Richard Klein

In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

Seven Japanese Tales
Junichiro Tanazaki

Ransom
Jay McInerney

Angela’s Ashes
FrankMcCourt

Regeneration
Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker

Crooked Little Heart
Annie Lamott

Love Invents Us
Amy Bloom

The Moviegoer
Walker Percy

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Come to Me
Amy Bloom

The Palace Thief
Ethan Canin

She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson

Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Peter Hoeg

Emperor of the Air
Ethan Canin

Human Croquet
Kate Atkinson

Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Anita Brookner

Women in Love
DH Lawrence

More Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow

All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren

The Italians
Luigi Barzini

The Loser
Thomas Bernhard

Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer

Humboldt’s Gift
Saul Bellow

Fireflies
Shiva Naipaul

My 1996 Reading List

The One Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan

The Republican War Against Women
Tanya Melich

The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki

The House on the Lagoon
Rosario Ferre

Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnes

Some Prefer Nettles
Junichiro Tanizaki

The Invisible Circus
Jennifer Egan

The Age of Consent
Geoffrey Wolff

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

McTeague
Frank Norris

Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Heart Songs
E. Annie Proulx

Midair
Frank Conroy

Mr. Ive’s Christmas
Oscar Hijuelos

Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol

Paula
Isabel Allende

Primary Colors
Anonymous

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson

Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi

Quicksand
Junikiro Tanazaki

Ladders of the Years
Anne Tyler

Floating in My Mother’s Palm
Ursula Hegi

Romola
George Eliot

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood

Best of Young American Writers
Granta, Ian Jack, ed.

The Pelican Brief
John Grisham

Rock Springs
Richard Ford

In the Eye of the Storm
Ahdat Soueif

The Liar’s Club
Mary Karr

The Paperboy
Pete Dexter

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

The Key
Junichiro Tanazaki

Italian Stories/Novelle Italian
Robert Hall, ed.

The Mating Season
PG Wodehouse

Murthur and Walking Spirits
Robertson Davies

Brotherly Love
Pete Dexter

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
Sidney Mintz

Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture
Joan Gussow

Leave it to Psmith
PG Wodehouse

The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter

Saints and Strangers
Angela Carter

Wise Children
Angela Carter

This Boy’s Life
Tobias Wolff

In Pharoah’s Army
Tobias Wolff

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

High Fidelity
Nick Hornby

The Rainbow
DH Lawrence

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banarjee Divkaruni

Barry Lyndon
Thackerey

The Duke of Deception
Geoffrey Wolff

Back in the World
Tobias Wolff

Accordian Crimes
Annie Proulx

Blue Sky Dream
David Beers

The Night in Question
Tobias Wolff

Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid

The Final Club
Geoffrey Wolff

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