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Summer Reading List 1998
All Over But the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg, Pantheon Books, 1997 (hardcover).
Angels on Toast, by Dawn Powell, Steerforth Press, 1996 (paperback).
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, Oxford University Press, 1995 (paperback).
The Art of Hitting, by Tony Gwynn, Good Times Publishing Corporation, 1998 (hardcover).
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson, Picador, 1997 (paperback).
Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit, by Martin Heidegger, State University of New York Press, 1996 (paperback).
Between the Woods and the Water, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Penguin, 1987 (paperback).
The Blue Place, by Nicola Griffith, Avon Books, 1998 (hardcover).
Bridget Jones' Diary, by Helen Fielding, Viking Press, 1998 (hardcover).
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Books, 1995 (paperback).
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, by Geoff Dyer, North Point Press, 1997 (paperback).
The Chess Garden, by Brooks Hansen, Riverhead Books, 1996 (paperback).
Cities of the Plain: A Novel, by Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, 1998 (hardcover).
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis, Vintage Books, 1992 (paperback).
Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks, Harper Collins, 1998 (hardcover).
The Cockfighter, by Frank Manley, Coffeehouse Press, 1998 (hardcover).
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, by Tony Horwitz, Pantheon Books, 1998 (hardcover).
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s, by Robert Polito (editor), Library of America, 1997 (hardcover).
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, by Robert Polito (editor), Library of America, 1997 (hardcover).
Damascus Gate, by Robert Stone, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998 (hardcover).
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, by Mike Davis, Metropolitan Books, 1998 (hardcover).
Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan, Doubleday, 1998 (hardcover).
The Fall of a Sparrow: A Novel, by Robert Hellenga, Scribner, 1998 (hardcover).
Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard, by Viking Press, 1985 (paperback).
Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby, Riverhead Books, 1998 (paperback).
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990 (paperback).
Flannery O'Conner, Collected Works, edited by Sally Fitzgerald, Library of America, 1988 (hardcover).
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East, by William Dalrymple, Henry Hold & Company, Inc., 1998 (hardcover).
Gospel Truth: The New Image of Jesus Emerging From Science and History and Why It Matters, by Russell Shorto, Riverhead Books, 1998 (paperback).
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998 (paperback).
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby, Riverhead Books, 1996 (paperback).
The Histories, by Herodotus, translated by Robin Waterfield, Oxford University Press, 1998 (hardcover).
A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind, Broadway Books, 1998 (hardcover).
In the Memory of the Forest, by Charles T. Powers, Penguin, 1998 (paperback).
The Light of Falling Stars, by J. Robert Lennon, Riverhead Books, 1998 (paperback).
Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned, by Scott McMillion, Falcon Publishing Co., 1998 (paperback).
Memoirs of Hadrian, and Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1963 (hardcover).
Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Koneman, 1998 (paperback).
A Monk Swimming: A Memoir, by Malachy McCourt, Hyperion, 1998 (hardcover).
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, by Peter Handke, translated by Krishna Winston, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998 (hardcover).
An Ocean in Iowa, by Peter Hedges, Hyperion, 1998 (hardcover).
Our of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, by Geoff Dyer, North Point Press, 1998 (hardcover).
A Patchwork Planet, by Anne Tyler, Knopf, 1998 (hardcover).
Personal History, by Katharine Graham, Vintage Books, 1998 (paperback).
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude, by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (editors), University of California Press, 1995 (paperback).
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Postwar to Millennium, by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (editors), University of California Press, 1998 (paperback).
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Oxford University Press, 1997 (hardcover).
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Bantam Spectra, 1993 (paperback).
Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Fanfare, 1995 (paperback).
Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Bantam Books, 1997 (paperback).
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Edification and Awakening, by Anti-Climacus, edited by Soren Kierkegaard, Penguin, 1989 (paperback).
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration, by Tamar Jacoby, Simon & Schuster, 1998 (hardcover).
The Tales of Chekov, The Complete Stories in Thirteen Volumes, by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, Ecco Press, 1984-1987 (paperback).
A Time to Be Born, by Dawn Powell, Steerforth Press, 1996 (paperback).
Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry, by Jeff Taylor, Chronicle Books, 1996 (hardcover).
Travelers' Tales Love & Romance, edited by Judith Babcock Wylie, Travelers' Tales Inc., 1998 (paperback).
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, by John Lewis, Simon & Schuster, 1998 (hardcover).
Weetzie Bat, by Francesca Lia Block, Harper Collins, 1991 (paperback).
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, by Sam Tanenhaus, Modern Library, 1998 (paperback).
A Widow for One Year, by John Irving, Random House, 1998 (hardcover).
And add your comments on the reading list, as well as your suggestions of additional titles to our Summer Reading Lists discussion.
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