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Books read in 1983

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Author Title
Date Finished
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1983-01-04
Heinrich Boll Billiards at Half Past Nine
1983-01-08
Michael Innes The Weight of the Evidence
1983-01-10
Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
1983-01-17
Michael Innes The Secret Vanguard
1983-01-18
Michael Innes The Man from the Sea
1983-01-19
Michael Innes Hare Sitting Up
1983-01-21
Anne Tyler Celestial Navigation
1983-01-23
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
1983-02-08
Tom Wolfe The Pump House Gang
1983-02-13
Armistead Maupin Tales of the City
Perhaps a sentimental favorite after all these years, and better known now from the televised versions, but still an important book that's fun to read.
1983-02-15
Robert Graves I, Claudius
1983-02-22
Robert Graves Claudius the God
1983-03-02
P.G. Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves
1983-03-04
P.G. Wodehouse The Return of Jeeves
1983-03-05
Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers
1983-03-11
Tom Wolfe From Bauhaus to Our House
1983-03-12
Karel Capek Tales from Two Pockets
1983-03-13
P.G. Wodehouse How Right You Are, Jeeves
1983-03-15
Sam Moskowitz Science Fiction by Gaslight; A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines 1891-1911
1983-03-18
Jane Austen Emma
1983-03-24
Alexander Kira The Bathroom
1983-03-26
Ursula Leguin The Left Hand of Darkness
1983-03-27
Nicholas Meyer The Seven Per Cent Solution
1983-03-29
Jerzy Kosinski Being There
1983-03-30
Richard Adams Shardik
1983-04-07
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
1983-04-11
Dorothy Sayers In the Teeth of the Evidence
1983-04-28
David Macauly Motel of the Mysteries
1983-05-03
various Aphrodisiac--Fiction from "Christopher Street"
1983-05-05
Justin Kaplan Walt Whitman, A Life
1983-05-10
Garrison Keillor Happy to Be Here
1983-05-14
P.D. James Cover Her Face
1983-05-17
P.D. James Shroud for a Nightengale
1983-05-19
Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1983-05-19
Michel Bernanos The Other Side of the Mountain
1983-05-20
P.D. James Innocent Blood
1983-05-22
P.D. James An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1983-05-23
P.D. James A Mind to Murder
1983-05-24
P.D. James Unnatural Causes
1983-05-25
P.D. James Death of an Expert Witness
1983-05-28
Dorothy Sayers The Documents in the Case
1983-05-30
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1983-05-31
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1983-05-31
Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary
1983-06-01
Agatha Christie Murder on the Links
1983-06-01
Agatha Christie The Man in the Brown Suit
1983-06-02
Agatha Christie The Murder at the Vicarage
1983-06-04
Agatha Christie Murder at Hazelmoor
1983-06-05
Agatha Christie Murder in Three Acts
1983-06-06
Agatha Christie Murder in Mesopotamia
1983-06-07
Agatha Christie The ABC Murders
1983-06-07
Agatha Christie Poirot Loses a Client
1983-06-08
Agatha Christie Appointment with Death
1983-06-09
Agatha Christie A Holiday for Murder
1983-06-09
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile
1983-06-10
Agatha Christie The Sad Cypress
1983-06-11
Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express
1983-06-12
Agatha Christie One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1983-06-12
Agatha Christie The Mystery of the Blue Train
1983-06-13
P.D. James The Black Tower
1983-06-15
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Poignant, moving, lyrical, memorable; a beautiful memoir of Angelou's childhood.
1983-06-17
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint
1983-06-18
Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus
1983-06-20
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1983-06-26
Michael Innes Hamlet, Revenge!
1983-06-28
Michael Innes Death in the President's Lodging
1983-06-30
Michael Innes The Daffordil Affair
1983-07-01
Michael Innes Lord Mullion's Secret
1983-07-03
Michael Innes The Ampersand Papers
1983-07-04
Michael Innes Candleshoe
1983-07-05
Fran Lebowitz Metropolitan Life
1983-07-06
Armistead Maupin More Tales of the City
1983-07-07
Armistead Maupin Further Tales of the City
1983-07-09
Michael Innes Appleby's End
1983-07-10
Marilyn French The Women's Room
1983-07-17
Maya Angelou Gather Together in my Name
1983-07-18
Maya Angelou Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
1983-07-21
Maya Angelou The Heart of a Woman
1983-07-22
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
1983-08-01
Jorge Amado Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
1983-08-11
E.B. White The Points of My Compass
1983-08-13
Robertson Davies Fifth Business
1983-08-15
A.J.A. Symons The Quest for Corvo
1983-08-17
Jerzy Kosinski Steps
1983-08-18
Judith Rossner Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1983-08-19
Howard Brown Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives
1983-08-28
Winston Leyland Flesh
1983-08-30
G.K. Chesterton The Penguin Complete Father Brown
1983-09-07
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
1983-09-21
Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent
The first book I read by Muriel Spark, and it was a revelation to find someone whose prose is so beautiful that each sentence sparkles.
1983-09-26
John Gardner Michelssohn's Ghosts
1983-10-07
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
1983-10-16
Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail
1983-10-18
Muriel Spark Memento Mori
1983-10-20
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1983-10-22
Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh
1983-11-09
Muriel Spark The Mandelbaum Gate
1983-11-09
Rita Mae Brown Rubyfruit Jungle
At the time I read it, this book was a revelation: it was funny, it talked about forbidden things, it was about a DYKE!
1983-11-10
Stanislaw Lem Memoirs of a Space Traveller
1983-11-19
John Simon Paradigms Lost
1983-12-07
Fran Lebowitz Social Studies
1983-12-12
P.D. James The Skull Beneath the Skin
1983-12-13
Abraham Pais "Subtle is the Lord..." The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
1983-12-29
Total Number of Titles: 104

See my list of
recommended books:
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list of books:

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2000     1999     1998     1997     1996    
1995     1994     1993     1992     1991    

1990     1989     1988     1987     1986    
1985     1984     1983     1982

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