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