Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Reading a book for every year of my life

1969    Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

1970    Love Story by Erich Segal / The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer / 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

1971    The Exorcist by Peter Blatty / The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart / The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

1972    Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli / Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

1973    The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart / Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke / Fear of Flying by Erica Jong / Sula by Toni Morrison

1974    The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope / Carrie by Stephen King / The Forever War by Joe Haldeman / The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip / The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1975    Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow / Jäniksen vuosi by Arto Paasilinna / The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez / Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt / Miestä ei voi raiskata by Märta Tikkanen

1976    Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart / Roots by Alex Haley / The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett / The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner / A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively / The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

1977    The Shining by Stephen King / Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison / The Women's Room by Marilyn French / Egalias döttrar by Gerd Brantenberg 

1978    The Stand by Stephen King / The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin / A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman / Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer / The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy

1979    The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart / The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter / Ghost Story by Peter Straub / Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing

1980    The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett / Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie / The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones

1981    The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving / Little, Big by John Crowley / Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith / Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis

1982    The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley / Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

1983    The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart / Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins / The Woman in Black by Susan Hill / Startide Rising by David Brin / Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer

1984    The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera / Legend by David Gemmell / Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

1985    Contact by Carl Sagan / Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy / Maus by Art Spiegelman / Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

1986    It by Stephen King / Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card / The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

1987    Misery by Stephen King /  War for the Oaks

1988    The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1989    The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie / The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving / The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs

1990    The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie / Darcy's Utopia by Fay Weldon / Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

1991    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis / The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan / Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold / Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 

1992    Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson / The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis / Bailey's Café by Gloria Naylor / A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville

1993    Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg / Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler / The List of Seven by Mark Frost / The Shipping News by Annie Proulx / A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

1994    Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein / The Book of Secrets by M.G.Vassanji / Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières / The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

1995    Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua / Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink / The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro / The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

1996    Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood / Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk / Infinite Jest by David Foser Wallace / The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler / A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt / The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

1997    The Red Wyvern by Katharine Kerr / Killing Floor by Lee Child / Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons / Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy / Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

1998    My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk / Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay / The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver / The Hours by Michael Cunningham ( Also Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf) / The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

1999    Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier/ There and Back Again: by Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy / Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier / Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund / Battle Royale by Koushun Takami / Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

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