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Books read in 1996

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Author Title
Date Finished
Paul Monette Halfway Home
I've been overwhelmed by all of Monette's writing, but this novel is the one I think I enjoyed the most.
1996-01-03
Lindsey Davis Poseidon's Gold
1996-01-05
William X. Kienzle Bishop as Pawn
1996-01-06
Don Shewey Out Front, Contrmporary Gay and Lesbian Plays
1996-01-07
Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy
Reading this play affected me profoundly, and I think it should be on everyone's reading list.
1996-01-07
Tony Kushner Angels in America, Part I: Millenium Approaches
1996-01-08
Tony Kushner Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika
1996-01-08
William X. Kienzle Masquerade
1996-01-09
William X. Kienzle Chameleon
1996-01-10
Robert Rodi Fag Hag
1996-01-12
Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-Pool Library
1996-01-16
Alan Ayckbourn The Norman Conquests
1996-01-18
Donna Leon Death at la Penice
1996-01-21
John Gardner The Art of Fiction
1996-01-22
David Drake The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
1996-01-23
Adam Mars-Jones Monopolies of Loss
Elsewhere I've recommended Mars-Jones novel; this is a collection of short stories and it's hard to imagine anything better written or more worth reading.
1996-01-26
David Bergman Men on Men 5
1996-01-28
John Preston In Search of a Master
1996-01-29
Marcia Muller Till The Butchers Cut Him Down
1996-01-31
Paul & Sarah Edwards Finding Your Perfect Work
1996-02-02
Sue Grafton "K" is for Killer
1996-02-04
Donna Leon Death in a Strange Country
1996-02-06
Sharran Newman Death Comes as Epiphany
1996-02-09
Lucretia Grindle So Little to Die For
1996-02-11
Katherine V. Forrest The Beverly Malibu
1996-02-12
Paul Tieger Do What you Are
1996-02-15
Carter Wilson Treasures on Earth
1996-02-21
Donna Leon Dressed for Death
1996-02-24
Colin Dexter The Daughters of Cain
1996-02-28
Colin Dexter The Way Through the Woods
1996-03-05
Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael's Pennance
Merely one title in a series of medieval mysteries (Brother Cadfael) that are all worth reading.
1996-03-09
Michael Dibdin Dead Lagoon
1996-03-15
Paul & Sarah Edwards Making it on Your Own
1996-03-17
Robert Hughes Culture of Complaint
1996-03-23
Marcia Muller The Tree of Death
1996-03-27
Ruth Rendell The Crocodile Bird
1996-04-01
Colin Dexter The Jewel that was Ours
1996-04-05
Candace M. Robb The Lady Chapel
1996-04-10
James Trefil A Scientist in the City
1996-04-16
Anthony Burgess A Mouthful of Air
1996-04-24
Pickles Queens
1996-05-02
Scott Heim Mysterious Skin
1996-05-10
Peter Hoeg Smilla's Sense of Snow
1996-05-17
Philip K. Dick A Maze of Death
1996-05-20
David Leavitt Equal Affections
1996-05-23
Leonard Shlain Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light
1996-05-28
Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars
1996-06-02
Barbara Vine No Night is Too Long
1996-06-05
Felice Picano Like People in History
1996-06-10
Natalie Angier The Beauty of the Beastly
1996-06-13
Stephen Fry The Hippopotamus
1996-06-17
Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
1996-06-20
Christopher Buckley Wet Work
1996-06-23
Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civilization
1996-06-30
David Levitt Lost Language of Cranes
1996-07-10
Grant Michaels Dead on Your Feet
1996-07-12
John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1996-07-17
Mel White Stranger at the Gate
1996-07-21
Veronica Black A Vow of Silence
1996-07-23
Edward Rothstein Emblems of Mind
1996-07-28
Nicholson Baker The Fermata
1996-07-30
Mary Wings She Came by the Book
1996-08-11
Diane Mott Davidson Killer Pancake
1996-08-18
Thomas Levenson Measure for Measure
1996-08-20
Carroll Lachnit A Blessed Death
1996-09-13
Patricia Cornwell From Potter's Field
1996-09-24
Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
1996-10-09
Paul Monette The Long Shot
1996-10-21
Robert Ferrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb
Theological reflections and recipes for lamb. Why not? The book that we've most often given our friends as a gift, because we think everyone needs to read it on the path to enlightenment.
1996-11-10
M.F.K. Fisher With Bold Knife and Fork
1996-12-02
Candace Robb The Nun's Tale
1996-12-18
Total Number of Titles: 71

See my list of
recommended books:
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1990     1989     1988     1987     1986    
1985     1984     1983     1982

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