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