The Reading Log

 

1. Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4, Methuen 1982, 23 Sept ’84

2.Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Fontana 1980 (orig. 1933), 660 pp. 10 Oct. ’84

3. Paula Danziger, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Dell Yearling 1974, 147 pp. 14 Oct. ’84

4. Ved Mehta, Vedi, Oxford University Press NY 1982, 258 pp. 21 Oct. ’84

5.  Olivia (Dorothy Bussy), Olivia, Penguin 1966 (first published 1949) 126 pp. 3 Nov.’84

6. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, Fontana 1981 (first published 1957) 480 pp. 29 Nov. ’84

7. Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship, Fontana 1981 (first published 1940) 453 pp. 26 Dec. ’84

8. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Doubleday 1962, 211 pp. 29 Dec. ’84

9. Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey, Paperjacks 1982 (1st published 1961) 127 pp. 30 Dec. ’84

10. Fred Bodsworth, The Last of the Curlews, Longmans 1966 (orig. 1954) 128 pp. 30 Dec. ’84

11. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Bantam 1980 ( 1st 1967) 216 pp. 4 Jan. ’85 (read in one day*)

* One of the few annotations!

12. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 2nd. edition R.V. Cassill ed., Norton & Co. 1981 1523 pp. 24 Mar. ’85

13. Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, Bantam 1980, 246 pp. 25 Mar. ’85

14. Carl Franz, People’s Guide to Mexico, John Muir 1982, 579 pp. (skim read) 28 Mar. ’85

15. Irwin and Emily Whitaker, A Potter’s Mexico, U. of New Mexico Press 1978, 135 pp. 29 Mar. ’85

16. Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Washington Square Press 1982, 253 pp. 31 Mar. ’85

17. The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975, Penguin, 2 April ’85

18. Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez, Penguin 1961, 507 pp. 16 April ’85

19. Jonathan Power, Against Oblivion, Fontana 1981, 254 pp. 19 April ’85

20. John Reed, Insurgent Mexico, 1914 (I seem to have forgotten to write the usual details here, though I do remember one episode from this engaging book.  John Reed was sitting in a town square chatting with a local who asked him where he was from.  He said, “New York City.” Just then a herd of cattle came by and the local man said, “I bet you don’t see such fine cows in New York.”

21. Colette, Claudine at School, Penguin 1963, 271 pp. 3 May ’85

22. I Never Told Anyone — Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass and Louise Thorton eds., Harper and Row 1983, 228 pp. 10 May ’83

23. Dianne Doubtfire, The Craft of  Novel Writing, Allison and Busby 1978, 86 pp. 17 May ’85

24. Feminist Frontiers, Laurel Richardson and Verta Taylor eds., Addison and Wesley Pub. Co. (date missing in the log), 451 pp. 24 May ’85

25. Craft of the Short Story, Richard Summers, Holt, Rinehart, Winston 1961, 120 pp. of 528 pp. (read only non-fiction part*) 26 May ’85

*another annotation

26. Virginia Wolf, Between the Acts, Granada, 1st pub. Hogarth 1941, 159 pp. 28 May ’85

27. Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, Panther Books 1973 (1st pub. 1966), 480 pp. 4 June ’85

28. Marie-Claire Blais, Nights in the Underground, General Paperbacks 1982 (1st pub. 1979), 199 pp. 8 June ’85

29. Alice Munro, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Signet 1974, 197 pp. 11 June ’85

30. Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?, Signet 1978, 210 pp. 13 June ’85

31. Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades, Ryerson Press 1968, 224 pp. 16 June ’85

Children’s Books: 17 June ’85

32. Sue Ann Alderson: Bonnie McSmithers You’re Driving Me Dithers, Tree Frog 1974

33. Bonnie McSmithers Is At It Again, Tree Frog 1979

Maurice Sendak:

34. Seven Little Monsters, Harper and Row 1975

35. Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water, Harper and Row 1965

36. Outside Over There, Harper and Row 1981

37. Where the Wild Things Are, Harper and Row 1963

38. In the Night Kitchen, Harper and Row 1970

Children’s Books 18 June ’85:

39. Chihiro Iwasaki, Mornoko and the Pretty Bird, Bodley Head 1972

40. Susan Jeschle, The Devil Did It, Holt Rinehart and Winston 1975

41. Ylla (C.N.Bonsall), Look Who’s Talking, Harper and Row 1962

42. Dahlov Ipcar, The Cat Came Back, Knopf 1971

Russell Hoban:

43. Best Friends for Frances, Harper and Row, 1969

44. A Baby Sister for Frances, Harper and Row, 1964

45. Bread and Jam for Frances, Harper and Row, 1964

45. * Maxine W. Kumin, The Beach Before Breakfast, G.P. Putman and Sons, 1964

*I misnumbered!

46. Charles Keeping, The Garden Shed, 1971

47. Ann McGovern, Scram Kid, Viking 1978

48. Uwe Friesel, Tim, the Peacemaker, Scroll Press, 1971

49. Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle, McClelland and Stewart 1976, 345 pp. 19 June ’85

50. Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, M&S 1979, 291 pp. 22 June ’85

51. Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm, M&S 1981, 301 pp. 24 June’85

52. Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, General Publishing Co. 1972, 208 pp. 27 June ’85

53. Eknath Easwaran, Meditation – An 8 Point Program, Nilgiri Press 1978, 237 pp. 30 June ’85

54. The Penguin Dorothy Parker, Penguin 1982, 610 pp. 12 July ’85

55. Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg, McClelland and Stewart 1983, 285 pp. 14 July ’85

56. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince, Gallimard 1946, 96 pp. 4 Aug. ’85

57. Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories, M&S 1977, 245 pp. 8 Aug. ’85

58. Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Grove Press 1947, 144 pp. 18 Sept. ’85

58. The Snotty Girl by Caroline Adderson*

*This was added as a joke by my jesting housemate, crudely scratched out by me.

59. Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, Eyre Methuen 1957, 64 pp. 20 Sept. ’85

60. Amnesty International,  East Timor – Violations of Human Rights, AI Publications 1985, 92 pp. 21 Sept.’85

61. Bertold Brecht, A Respectable Wedding and Other One Act Plays 1918-1923, Eyre Methuen 1970, 96 pp. 23 Sept. ’85

62. Michel Tremblay, Les Belles Soeurs, Talonbooks 1974, 114 pp. 25 Sept. ’85

63. Michel Tremblay, La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays, Talonbooks 1976, 125 pp. 26 Sept. ’85

64. Michel Tremblay, En Pieces Detachees, Talonbooks 1972, 108 pp. 27 Sept. ’85

65. Roz Chast, Unscientific Americans, Dial Press 1982, 28 Sept. ’85

66. Michel Tremblay, Bonjour La Bonjour, Talonbooks 1974, 83 pp. 6 Oct. ’85

67. Michel Tremblay, The Impromptu of Outremont, Talonbooks 1981, 86 pp. 8 Oct. ’85

68. Michel Tremblay, Remember Me, Talonbooks 1984, 58 pp. 12 Oct. ’85

69. Andreas Schroeder, file of uncertainties, Sono Nis Press 1971, 28 pp. 13 Oct. ’85

70. Andreas Schroeder, The Late Man, Sono Nis Press 1972, 118 pp. 16 Oct. ’85

71. Andreas Schroeder, The Ozone Minotaur, Sono Nis Press 1969, 58 pp. 18 Oct. ’85

72. Eugene O’Neill, Emperor Jones, Modern Library 1921, 58 pp. 22 Nov. ’85

73. Tennessee Williams, Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays, New Directions 1981, pp. 358 1 Dec. ’85

74. Aesop’s Fables, Heinemann 1967 (1912), 224 pp.  3 Dec. ’85

75. Audrey Thomas, Real Mothers, Talonbooks 1981, 168 pp. 9 Dec. ’85

76. Audrey Thomas, Ladies and Escorts, Oberon Press 1977, 159 pp. 19 Dec. ’85

77. Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers, Turnstone Press 1982, 182 pp. 20 Dec. ’85

78. Marian Engel, inside the easter egg, Anansi 1975, 172 pp. 26 Dec. ’85

79. Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The Modern Library 1952, 325 pp. 2 Jan. ’86

80. Mavis Gallant, The End of the World and Other Stories, McClelland and Stewart 1982, 167 pp. 5 Jan.’86

81. Audrey Thomas, Ten Green Bottles, Oberon Press 1967, 177 pp. 12 Jan. ’86

82. Mavis Gallant, Home Truths, Macmillan 1981, 330 pp. 23 Jan.’86

83. Sam Shepard, Fire Plays, Merrill 1967, 170 pp. 3 Feb. ’86

84. Jonathan Kozol, Illiterate America, Doubleday 1985, 270 pp. 26 Feb. ’86

85. Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, CBC Enterprises 1986, 76 pp. 28 Feb. ’86

86. David Story, Home in The Changing Room, Home, The Contractor, Bard Books 1971, 4 Mar. ’86

87. Audrey Thomas, Blown Figures, Talonbooks 1974, 547 pp. 12 Mar. ’86

88. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Harper 1978, 183 pp. 17 Mar. ’86

89. Sandra Birdsell, Ladies of the House, Turnstone 1984, 169 pp. 22 Mar. ’86

90. Harold Pinter, 3 Plays – A Slight Ache, The Collection, The Dwarfs, Grove Press 1962, 108 pp. 25 Mar. ’86

91. Harold Pinter, Plays: For Old Times, No Man’s Land, Betrayal, Monologue, Family Voices, Eyre Methuen 1981, 296 pp. 28 Mar. ’86

92. E. M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories, Penguin 1979, 273 pp. 4 April ’86

93. Marge Piercy, Living in the Open, Knopf 1978, 108 pp. 4 April ’86

94. Marge Piercy, The Moon Is Always Female, Knopf 1980, 133 pp. 20 April ’86

95. Franz Kafka, The Penal Colony, Schocken Books 1964, 315 pp. 24 April ’86

96. Aritha Van Herk, Judith, Seal 1978, 181 pp. 26 April ’86

97. Leon Rooke, Shakespeare’s Dog, General Paperbacks 1981, 158 pp. 1 May ’86

98. Robertson Davies, The Manticore, Penguin 1972, 281 pp. 4 May ’86

99. Sinclair Ross, As For Me and My House, McClelland and Stewart 1941, 165 pp. 8 May ’86

100. Keith Maillard, Alex Driving South, General Publishing 1980, 256 pp. 11 May ’86

101. Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, Viking 1970, 308 pp. 12 May ’86

102. George Spater and Ian Parsons, A Marriage of True Minds – An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Cape and the Hogarth Press 1977, 210 pp. 21 May ’86

103. Margaret Lawrence, The Stone Angel, McClelland and Stewart 1964, 308 pp. 25 May ’86

104. Margaret Lawrence, The Diviners, Knopf 1974, 382 pp.  28 May ’86

105. Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice, Penguin 1980 (1954) 262 pp. 30 May ’86

106. Mavis Gallant, From the Fifteenth District, Macmillan 1973, 243 pp. 4 June ’86

107. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Avon 1970, 383 pp. 17 June ’86

108. P. Carroll and D. Noble, The Free and the Unfree – A New History of the United States, Penguin 1977, 448 pp. 29 June ’86

109. William Faulkner, New Orleans Sketches, Random House 1958 (1925), 139 pp. 2 July ’86

110. Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Viking 1975, 358 pp. 11 July ’86

111. William Faulkner, The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, Random House 1950, 900 pp. 28 July ’86

112. Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy, Harper and Row 1964, 289 pp. 29 July ’86

113. Kornei Chukovsky, From Two to Five, University of California Press 1968, 170 pp. 30 July ’86

114. Louise Fitzhugh, The Long Secret, Harper and Row 1965, 275 pp. 31 July ’86

115. Louise Fitzhugh, Sport, Harper and Row 1979, 218 pp. 1 Aug. ’86

116. Mary Downing Hahn, Daphne’s Book, Bantam Skylark 1983, 183 pp. 5 Aug.’86

117. Eleanor Cameron, A Room Made of Windows, Dell Yearling 1971, 271 pp. 7 Aug. ’86

118. E.L. Konigsburg, Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, Atheneum 1967, 117 pp. 8 Aug. ’86

119. John Kennedy O’Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Louisiana State University Press 1980, 383 pp. 18 Aug. ’86

120. John R. Biggs, Woodcuts, Blandford Press 1958, 176 pp. 27 Aug. ’86

121. Hugh Ross Williamson, The Young People’s Book of Saints, Hawthorn Books 1960, 239 pp. 27 Aug. ’86

122. Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings, C.P. Dutton 1970, 256 pp. 28 Aug. ’86

123. Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties, Charles Scribner 1958, 379 pp. 5 Sept. ’86

124. Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich 1980, 622 pp. 3 Oct. ’86

125. Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories, Farrar Straus and Giroux 1979, 555 pp. 12 Oct. ’86

126. Judith Frost Stark, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Pay the Toll, Price, Stern, Sloan 1985, 9 Oct. ’86

127. Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings, Harvard University Press 1984, 104 pp. 17 Oct. ’86

128. Gerald Woods, Introducing Woodcuts, B.T. Batsford 1968, 80 pp. 17 Oct. ’86

129. Harold Fickett and Douglas R. Gilbert, Flannery O’Connor – Images of Grace, William B. Ferdmans 1986, 151 pp. 18 Oct. ’86

130. Grace King, Balcony Stories, MacMillan 1925 (1892), 296 pp. 20 Oct. ’86

131. Ellen Gilchrist, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, University of Arkansas Press 1981, 167 pp. 23 Oct. ’86

132. Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being – The Letters of Flannery O’Connor, Sally Fitzgerald editor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1979, 617 pp. 5 Nov. ’86

133. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald editors, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1969, 237 pp. 19 Nov.’86

134. Cleanth Brooks And Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Fiction, Prentice Hall 1971 (1959) 688 pp. (skipped pages 394-525) 25 Nov. ’86

135. Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Harcourt, Brace and World 1965, 495 pp. 9 Dec. ’86

136. Christa Koepff, The New Finch Handbook, Barron’s 1983 pp. 133 14 Dec. ’86

137. Shirley Ann Grau, The Black Prince, Alfred A. Knopf 1963 (1955) 294 pp. 16 Dec. ’86

138. Sheila Bosworth, Almost Innocent, Simon and Schuster 1984, 268 pp. 19 Dec. ’86

139. George M. Craven, Object and Image – An Introduction to Photography, Prentice Hall 1975, 280 pp. 30 Dec. ’86

140. Willa Cather, Short Stories 1898-1912, (read most of this ca. 400 or 500 pages but didn’t quite finish) 16 Jan. ’87

141. Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women, New American Library 1971, 211 pp. 24 Jan. ’87

142. Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings, Cedric Chivers 1973 (1958), 256 pp. 26 Jan. ’87

143. Rudy Wiebe, The Angel of the Tar Sands and Other Stories, McClelland and Stewart 1982, 191 pp. 2 Feb. ’87

143.* Rudy Wiebe, Where Is the Voice Coming From?, McClelland and Stewart 1974, 155 pp. 3 Feb. ’87 (some stories from the above edition –not re-read)

* misnumbered again!

144. Getting Here – Stories Selected by Rudy Wiebe, NeWest Press 1977, 120 pp. 3 Feb. ’87

145. Margaret Laurence, The Tomorrow-Tamer, Macmillan and Co. 1963, 244 pp. 3 Feb. ’87

146. Robertson Davies, A Voice From the Attic, McClelland and Stewart 1960, 360 pp. 17 Feb. ’87

147. Barbara Pym, Crampton Hodnet, E.P. Dutton, 216 pp. 18 Feb. ’87

148. Margaret Laurence, A Bird in the House, McClelland and Stewart 1970, 179 pp. 22 Feb. ’87

149. Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God, McClelland and Stewart 1960, 246 pp. 23 Feb. ’87

150. Warwick Hutton, Making Woodcuts, Academy Editions 1974, 88 pp. 1 Mar. ’87

151. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, Garden City Books 1948, 429 pp. 4 Mar. ’87

152. Clark Blaise, Resident Alien, Penguin 1986, 184 pp. 7 Mar. ’87

153. Janette Turner Hospital, The Ivory Swing, McClelland and Stewart 1982, 252 pp 7 Mar. ’87

154. Clark Blaise, A North American Education, Doubleday 1973, 230 pp. 11 Mar. ’87

155. Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country, Scribner 1948, 283 pp. 16 Mar. ’87

156. Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonia Express, Pocket Books 1979, 478 pp. 22 Mar. ’87

157. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin 1983 (1945), 395 pp. 23 Mar. ’87

158. William Shakespeare, King Lear, David McKay Co. 1964, 175 pp. 1 Apr. ’87

159. Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart 1969, 281 pp. 4 Apr. ’87

160. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, McClelland and Stewart 1985, 324 pp. 13 Apr. ’87

161. The Portable James Joyce, Penguin 1976, 762 pp. (didn’t read the last 38 pages from FW), 25 Apr. ’87

162. Patricia Ainslie, Images of the Land: Canadian Block Prints 1919-1945, Glenbow Museum 1984, 165 pp. 25 Apr. ’87

163. J.A. Simpson (ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford University Press 1982, 256 pp. 28 Apr. ’87

164. Margaret Lawrence, The Fire Dwellers, McClelland and Stewart 1969, 308 pp. 2 May ’87

165. John Metcalfe and Leon Rooke (eds.), The New Press Anthology of Best Canadian Short Fiction #1, 1984, 245 pp.  29 May ’87 (not all read)

166. Dorthea Brande, Becoming a Writer, J.P. Torcher 1981 (1934), 186 pp. 31 May’87

167. Nadine Gordimer, A Soldier’s Embrace, Penguin 1982, 144 pp. 9 Jun. ’87

168. Barbara Pym, An Unsuitable Attachment, MacMillan 1982, 256 pp. 12 Jun.’87

169. V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas, Andre Deutch 1961, 531 pp. 29 Jun. ’87

170. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Bantam 1965 (1937), 118 pp. 1 July ’87

171. Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice, Viking 1956, 346 pp. 5 July ’87

172. Adele Wiseman, Crackpot, McClelland and Stewart 1974, 300 pp. 14 July ’87

173. Cecil Dawkins, The Quiet Enemy, Penguin 1986, 26 July ’87 (not all read)

174. E.L. Doctorow, Lives of the Poets, Random House 1984, 145 pp. 1 Aug. ’87

175. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1980, 219 pp. 12 Aug. ’87

176. Breece D’J. Pancake, The Stories of Breece D’ J. Pancake, Little, Brown and Co. 1983, 178 pp. 16 Aug. ’87

177. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, Harper and Row 1977, 76 pp. 19 Aug. ’87

178. Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Granada 1980, 128 pp. 20 Aug. ’87

179. Leon Rooke, A Bolt of White Cloth, Stoddard 1984, 176 pp. 28 Aug. ’87

180. Alistair MacLeod, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, McClelland and Stewart 1986, 189 pp. 30 Aug. ’87

181. Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, Summit Books 1980, 155 pp. 1 Sept. ’87

182. Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill, Viking 1982, 249 pp. 4 Sept. ’87

183. Bruce Chatwin, Songlines, Viking 1987, 293 pp. 7 Sept. ’87

184. Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, McClelland and Stewart 1976, 187 pp. 9 Sept. ’87

185. Michael Ondaatje, The Skin of a Lion, McClelland and Stewart 1987, 244 pp. 16 Sept. ’87

186. Ellen Gilchrist, Drunk With Love, Little Brown and Co. 1986, 239 pp. 13 Sept. ’87

187. Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey, Picador 1987, 171 pp. 21 Sept. ’87 (not completed)

188. Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, McClelland and Stewart 1955, 184 pp. 25 Sept. ’87

189. Frans Masereel, The City – 100 Woodcuts, Dover 1972 (1925), 100 pp. 25 Sept. ’87

190. Jan Faust, The Underground Sketchbook, Dover 1971, 101 pp. 25 Sept. ’87

191. Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey — A Novel Told In 165 Woodcuts, Dover 1971, 171 pp. 25 Sept. ’87

192. Richard Ford, Rock Springs, Atlantic Monthly Press 1987, 235 pp. 28 Sept. ’87

193. Richard Ford, The Ultimate Good Luck, Houghton Mifflin 1981, 201 pp. 1 Oct. ’87

194. Constance Beresford-Howe, The Book of Eve, McClelland and Stewart 1973, 190 pp. 3 Oct. ’87

195. Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, McClelland and Stewart 1960, 244 pp. 12 Oct. ’87

196. Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones, Shambhala 1986, 171 pp. 14 Oct. ’87

197. Ethel Wilson, Swamp Angel, McClelland and Stewart 1954, 158 pp. 16 Nov. ’87

198. Suzette Haden Elgin, More on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, Prentice Hall 1983, 284 pp. 19 Nov. ’87

199. Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels, Penguin 1982, 326 pp. 19 Dec. ’87

200. Robertson Davies, What’s Bred In the Bone, Macmillan 1985, 436 pp. 4 Jan. ’88

201. Gabrielle Roy, Windflower, McClelland and Stewart 1970, 152 pp. 6 Jan. ’88

202. Robertson Davies, Tempset Tost, Penguin 1987 (1951), 284 pp. 9 Jan. ’88

203. Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, Viking 1985, 355 pp. 16 Jan. ’88

204. Patrick Power, The Book of Irish Curses, Mercier Press 1974, 96 pp. 17 Jan. ’88

205. Christie Harris, Once Upon a Totem, Atheneum 1963, 148 pp. 26 Jan. ’88

206. Carolyn Chute, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Ticknor Fields 1985, 215 pp. 1 Feb. ’88

207. Don Coles, K in Love, Vehicule Press 1987, 71 pp. 4 Feb. ’88

208. Don Coles, K in Love, Vehicule Press 1987, 71 pp. 5 Feb. ’88

209. Andreas Schroeder, Dustship Glory, Doubleday 1986, 215 pp. 11 Feb. ’88

210. Susan Kerslake, The Book of Fears, Ragweed Press 1984, 125 pp. 16 Feb. ’88

211. Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Summit Books 1985, 233 pp. 22 Feb. ’88

212. John Metcalf, Adult Entertainment, Macmillan 1986, 201 pp. 3 Mar. ’88

213. The Greywolf Annual Two: Short Stories by Women, Gray Wolf Press 1986, 176 pp. 11 Mar. ’88

214. Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, Macmillan 1982, 230 pp.  22 Mar. ’88

215. Jim Harrison, Dalva, E.P. Dutton 1988, 324 pp. 30 Mar. ’88

216. Rachel Wyatt, Foreign Bodies, Anansi 1982, 181 pp. 23 April ’88

217. Colin Fletcher, The Complete Walker III, Knopf 1984, 668 pp. 24 April ’88

218. Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man, Simon and Schuster 1970, 175 pp. 3 May ’88

219. David Adams Richards, The Coming of Winter, McClelland and Stewart 1974, 259 pp. 9 May ’88

220. John Powell, Why Am I Afraid to Love?, Tabor 1967, 120 pp. 10 May ’88

221. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Bantam 1974, 279 pp. 11 May ’88

222. John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, Bantam 1961, 298 pp. 9 June ’88

223. Thorton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Grosset and Dunlap 1927, 235 pp. 16 June ’88

224. David Adams Richards, Blood Ties, McClelland and Stewart 1976, 278 pp. 19 June ’88

225. The Wretched of Canada: Letters to R.B. Bennett 1930-1935, L.M. Grayson and Michael Bliss, eds., University of Toronto Press 1971, 199 pp. 5 July ’88

226. Wilmer Gold, Logging As It Was, Morris Publishing 1985, 255 pp. 6 July ’88

227. Janice Patton, How the Depression Hit the West, McClelland and Stewart 1973, 48 pp. 7 July ’88

228. Atelia Clarkson and Gilbert Cross, World Folktales, Scribner 1980, 450 pp. 11 July ’88

230.* William Ash, The Way to Write Radio Drama, Elm Tree Books 1985, 136 pp. 17 July ’88

* I misnumbered.

231. Robert Kroetsch, Badlands, General Publishing 1975, 270 pp. 30 July ’88

232. Jim Harrison, Sundog, E.P. Dutton 1984, 241 pp. 4 Aug. ’88

233. David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street, McClelland and Stewart 1988, 225 pp. 8 Aug. ’88

234. John Powell, Unconditional Love, Argus Communications 1978, 118 pp. 10 Aug. ’88

235.  Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Airmont Publishing (1818), 191 pp. 15 Aug. ’88

236. Barry Broadfoot, Six War Years 1939-1945, Doubleday 1974, 417 pp. 20 Aug. ’88

237. Ovid, The Metamorphoses, Mentor 1958 (8 AD), 448 pp. 24 Aug. ’88

238. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Oxford 1955 (1854), 299 pp. 3 Sept. ’88

239. E.M. Forester, Aspects of the Novel, Harcourt, Brace and World 1954 (1927), 247 pp. 9 Sept. ’88

240. J.B. Vaughn, The Wandering Years, Hancock House Publishers 1975, 250 pp. 23 Sept. ’88

241. V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival, Penguin 1987, 318 pp. 5 Oct. ’88

242. Southern Alberta – A Regional Perspective, Dr. F. Jankunis, Ed., University of Lethbridge 1972,  123 pp. 10 Oct. ’88

243. One Hundred Favorite Folk Tales, Stith Thompson Ed., Indiana University Press 1975, 439 pp. 16 Oct. ’88

244. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood and And the Violent Bear It Away in 3 by Flannery O’Connor, Signet 1962, 447 pp. 22 Oct. ’88

245. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Esmond in India, Penguin 1980 (1958), 206 pp. 27 Oct. ’88

246. Heather Robertson, Salt of the Earth – The Story of Homesteaders in Western Canada, James Lorimer and Co. 1974, 244 pp. 31 Oct. ’88

247. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A New Dominion, Quartet Books 1972, 218 pp. 31 Oct. ’88

248. John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist, Harper and Row 1983, 150 pp. 6 Nov. ’88

249. Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road, Grossman 1970, 97 pp. 7 Nov. ’88

250. Graeme Gibson, Perpetual Motion, Seal 1982, 283 pp. 11 Nov. ’88

251. Conrad Richter, The Artistocrat, Knopf 1968, 181 pp. 12 Nov. ’88

252. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Fawcett 1959, 192 pp. 14 Nov. ’88

253. Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Doubleday 1965, 257 pp. 17 Dec. ’88

254. Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press 1973 (1949), 416 pp. 31 Dec. ’88

255. Kenneth E. Kidd, Blackfoot Ethnography, Archeological Survey of Alberta Manuscript Series No. 8 1986, 6 Jan. ’89

256. Rudyard Kipling, Kim, MacMillan 1936 (1908) 422 pp. 13 Jan. ’89

257. Genesis, Doubleday 1964, 378 pp. 24 Jan. ’89

258. L.S. Russell, Dinosaur Hunting in Western Canada, ROM/University of Toronto Press 1966, 37 pp. 25 Jan.’89

259. W.E. Swinton, Dinosaurs, British Museum 1974, 47 pp. 27 Jan. ’89

260. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Vintage 1954 (1930), 404 pp. 2 Feb. ’89

261. Kay Boyle, Life Being the Best and Other Stories, New Directions 1988, 140 pp. 7 Feb. ’89

262. Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Vintage 1984, 318 pp. 12 Feb. ’89

263. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire – Genesis, Pantheon 1985, 293 pp. 28 Feb. ’89

264. Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, Penguin 1987 (1902), 171 pp. 4 Mar. ’89

265. Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, Oxford University Press 1987 (1888), 279 pp. 12 Mar. ’98

266. Nellie McClung, Clearing In the West, Fleming H. Revell Co. 1936, 378 pp. 19 Mar. ’89

267. James G. MacGregor, A History of Alberta, Hurtig 1981, 335 pp. 23 April ’89

268. The Oxford Illustrated  Old Testament: Genesis – Deuteronomy, Oxford University Press 1968, 435 pp. 24 April ’89

269. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Houghton Mifflin 1956 (1847), 287 pp. 29 April ’89

270. Carol Shields, Swann – A Mystery, Stoddart 1987, 313 pp. 2 May ’89

271. Annie Dillard, Living By Fiction, Harper and Row 1982, 192 pp. 3 May ’89

272. Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird, Doubleday 1976, 214 pp. 7 May ’89

273. C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, Collins 1984 (1933), 250 pp. 18 May ’89

274. Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm, Penguin 1979 (1883) 301 pp. 21 May ’89

275. Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, Picador 1981, 463 pp. 6 June ’89

276. Katherine Govier, Random Descent, Penguin 1987 (1979), 282 pp. 14 June ’89

277. John Punshon, Encounter with Silence, Friends United Press 1987, 131 pp. 24 June ’89

278. Sean O’Faolain, Foreign Affairs and Other Stories, Penguin 1986, 422 pp. 28 June ’89

279. William Trevor, A Writer’s Ireland: Landscape in Literature, Viking 1984, 177 pp. 5 July ’89

280. Geoffrey Hubbard, Quaker by Convincement, Quaker Home Service 1985 (1974), 253 pp. 22 July ’89

281. Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, Hutchison 1958, 343 pp. 25 July ’89

282. Eric Newby, Round Ireland in Low Gear, Picador 1987, 308 pp. 10 Aug. ’89

283. Liam O’Flaherty, The Tent, Jonathan Cape 1926, 288 pp. 18 Aug. ’89

284. Barry Broadfoot, Ten Lost Years 1929-39, Doubleday 1973, 390 pp. 2 Sept. ’89

285. W. B. Yeats Ed., A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend and Folklore,  Avenel Books 1986, 704 pp. (read 326 pp.), 30 Aug. ’89

286. Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, Everyman’s Library 1977 (1954), 6 Sept. ’89

287. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, Laurel 1977, 191 pp. 16 Sept. ’89

288. Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool, Penguin 1988 (1938), 263 pp. 21 Sept. ’89

289. John B. Keane, The Bodhran Makers, Brandon 1988 (1986), 353 pp. 26 Sept. ’89

290. J. M. Synge, The Aran Islands, Oxford 1987, 173 pp. 5 Oct. ’89

291. Sean O’Casey, Three Plays, Pan 1980 (1925, 1926), 218 pp. 9 Oct. ’89

292. Liam O’Flaherty, Famine, Wolfhound 1989 (1937), 448 pp. 16 Oct. ’89

293. C.S. Lewis, Christian Behaviour, The Centenary Press 1945 (1943), 64 pp. 19 Oct. ’89

294. Leland Bardwell, The House, Brandon 1984, 157 pp. 20 Oct. ’89

295. Leland Bardwell, There We Have Been, Attic Press 1989, 95 pp. 22 Oct. ’89

296. Breandan Oh Eithir, A Pocket History of Ireland, The O’Brien Press 1989, 112 pp. 23 Oct. ’89

297. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Smith, Elder and Co. 1885, 483 pp. 28 Oct. ’89

298. Leland Bardwell, Different Kinds of Love, Attic Press 1987, 121 pp. 31 Oct. ’89

299. Leland Bardwell, That London Winter, Co-op Books 1981, 183 pp. 5 Nov. ’89

300. Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Penguin 1978, 188 pp. 8 Nov. ’89

301. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Penguin 1970 (1861), 237 pp. 12 Nov. ’89

302. Anne Spillard, The Shadow Kiss, Pan 1988, 186 pp. 18 Nov. ’89

303. Anton Chekhov, Lady with the Lapdog and Other Stories, Penguin 1976 (1885, ’99) 281 pp. 20 Nov. ’89

304. Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, H.F.W. Deane and Sons 1934 (1904), 63 pp. 21 Nov. ’89

305. John Banville, The Book of Evidence, Secker and Warburg 1989, 220 pp. 26 Nov. ’89

306. John Banville, Mephisto, Secker and Warburg 1986, 234 pp. 29 Nov. ’89

307. E. M. Forester, A Room With A View, Penguin 1978 (1908), 256 pp. 9 Dec. ’89

307.* Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye, Seal/McClelland and Stewart 1989 (1988), 445 pp. 13 Dec. ’89

* I misnumbered.

308. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying, Macmillan 1978 (1969), 260 pp. 27 Dec. ’89

309. William Faulkner, Light in August, Modern Library 1968 (1932) 480 pp. 7 Jan.’90

310. George Elliot, Silas Marner, Books Inc. (1861), 250 pp. 19 Jan. ’90

311. Helen R. Sattler, Nature’s Weather Forecasters, Thomas Nelson 1978, 158 pp. 23 Jan. ’90

312. Bill Gaston, Deep Cove Stories, Oolichan Books 1989, 203 pp. 5 Feb. ’90

313. Sean O’Faolain, The Short Story, Mercier Press 1983 (1948), 269 pp. 17 Feb. ’90

314. Germaine Greer, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You, Hamish Hamilton 1989, 311 pp. 18 Feb. ’90

315. Timothy Findley, Famous Last Words, Penguin 1989 (1981), 396 pp.  1 Mar. ’90

316. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Pelican 1972, 170 pp. 6 Mar. ’90

317. Eric Sloane, Almanac and Weather Forecaster, Hawthorne 1955, 169 pp. 19 Mar. ’90

318. Bonnie Burnard, Women of Influence, Coteau Books 1989, 109 pp. 25 Mar. ’90

319. Eric Sloane, Do: A little book of early American know how, Walker and Co. 1972, 55 pp. 26 Mar. ’90

320. Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Penguin 1987 (1986), 421 pp. 2 Apr. ’90

321. Eric Sloane, Eric Sloane’s Weather Book, Hawthorne 1952 (1949), 90 pp. 8 Apr. ’90

322. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Penguin 1980 (1866, 1951 translation), 559 pp. 13 Apr. ’90

323. Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve, Penguin 1985 (1859) 234 pp. 2 May ’90

324. Brian Friel, The Selected Plays of Brian Friel, Faber and Faber 1984, 455 pp. 3 May ’90

325. Ernst Havemann, Bloodsong and Other Stories of South Africa, Houghton Mifflin 1987, 134 pp. 4 May ’90

326. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, MacMillan 1934 (1859), 338 pp. 29 May ’90

327. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Doherty 1988 (1719), 340 pp. 18 June ’90

328. Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, Viking 1987, 292 pp. 30 June ’90

329. Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford University Press 1964 (1954, stories from 1914-1923), 364 pp. 6 July ’90

330.  The Journey Prize Anthology, McClelland and Stewart 1990, 255 pp. 28 July ’90

331. Jan de Hartog, The Peaceable Kingdom, Atheneum 1972 (1971), 677 pp. 23 Aug. ’90

332. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust, Harper and Row 1977 (1975), 181 pp. 30 Aug. ’90

333. Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, McClelland and Stewart 1990, 273 pp. 14 Sept. ’90

334. Harold Pinter, A Slight Ache and Other Plays, Methuen 1985 (1961) 136 pp. 2 Oct. ’90

335. David Mamet, American Buffalo, Samuel French 1977 (1975), 87 pp. 4 Oct. ’90

336. Caryl Churchill, Top Girls, Methuen 1982, 87 pp. 4 Oct. ’90

337. Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Methuen 1987 (1899), 59 pp. 8 Oct. ’90

338. William Mastosimone, Extremities, Samuel French 1985 (1978), 73 pp 8 Oct. ’90

339. David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Methuen 1984, 64 pp. 8 Oct. ’90

340. J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Penguin 1985 (1983), 184 pp. 18 Oct. ’90

341. Anton Chekhov, Wild Honey, Methuen 1984, 104 pp. 20 Oct. ’90

342. Nadine Gordimer, July’s People, Penguin 1986 (1981), 160 pp. 23 Oct. ’90

343. Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot, Penguin 1985 (1834), 304 pp. 7 Nov. ’90

344. Joan Chase, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, Ballantyne 1983, 275 pp. 21 Nov. ’90

345. Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah, Heinemann 1987, 233 pp. 6 Dec. ’90

346. Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day, Harper and Row 1980, 183 pp. 22 Dec. ’90

347. Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe, Douglas and McIntyre 1990, 237 pp. 26 Dec. ’90

348. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Bantam 1981 (1857), 424 pp. 2 Jan. ’91

349. Timothy Findley, Stones, Viking 1988, 221 pp. 8 Jan. ’91

350. Mavis Gallant, The End of the World and Other Stories, McClelland and Stewart 1982 (1974), 167 pp. 16 Jan. ’91

351. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Penguin 1986 (1876), 221 pp. 29 Jan. ’91

352. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Penguin 1986 (1880), 913 pp. 17 Feb. ’91

353. Myrna Summers, North of the Battle, Douglas and McIntyre 1988, 196 pp. 3 Mar. ’91

354. Coming Attractions ’90, Maggie Helwig ed., Oberon 1990, 92 pp. 5 Mar. ’91

355. Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, Harper and Row 1989, 111 pp. 10 Mar. ’91

356. Athol Fugard, The Road to Mecca, Faber and Faber 1985, 79 pp. 20 Mar. ’91

357. Athol Fugard, Master Harold… and the Boys, Samuel French 1982, 73 pp. 21 Mar. ’91

358. Athol Fugard, The Blood Knot, Samuel French 1984 (1963), 81 pp. 26 Mar. ’91

359. Athol Fugard, People Are Living There, Oxford University Press 1979 (1969), 72 pp. 29 Mar. ’91

360. Athol Fugard, Hello and Good-bye, Samuel French 1971, 62 pp. 30 Mar. ’91

361. Athol Fugard, Lessons from Aloes, Samuel French 1981, 76 pp. 31 Mar. ’91

362. Mavis Gallant, Overhead in a Balloon, Macmillan 1985, 8 Apr. ’91

363. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Faber and Faber 1974 (1967), 24 Apr. ’91

364. Ivan Turgenev, A House of Gentlefolk, Heinemann 1970 (1897), 3 May ’91

365. Guy Vanderhaeghe, My Present Age, Macmillan 1984, 239 pp. 24 May ’91

366. J. M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country, Secker and Warburg 1977, 139 pp. 7 Jun. ’91

367. J. M. Coetzee, Foe, Secker and Warburg 1986, 157 pp. 12 Jun. ’91

368. Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Dance of Anger, Harper and Row 1985, 239 pp. 14 Jun. ’91

369. Ven Begamudre, A Planet of Eccentrics, Oolichan 1990, 196 pp. 16 Jun. ’91

370. Out of Place, Ven Begamudre and Judith Krause eds., Coteau 1991, 204 pp. 20 Jun. ’91

371. Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, Signet 1963 (1881), 559 pp. 1 Jul. ’91

372. Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, Miramar, Quality Paperbacks 1989 (Arabic 1947, 1961, 1967), 581 pp. 14 Jul. ’91

373. Grace Paley, Later the Same Day, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985, 211 pp. 19 July, ’91

374. Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand, Ballantine 1990, 330 pp. 20 July ’91

375. Anton Chekhov, The Darling and Other Stories, Ecco Press 1986 (1886-1899), 329 pp. 2 Aug. ’91

376. Isak Dinesen, Winter’s Tales, Penguin 1983 (1942), 218 pp. 7 Aug. ’91

377. Deirdre Purcell, A Place of Stones, MacMillan 1991, 420 pp. 15 Aug. 91

378. Mark Helprin, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Knopf 1975, 180 pp. 19 Aug. ’91

379. Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence 1981, 196 pp. 27 Aug. ’91

380. Paul Yee, Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World, Groundwood 1989, 64 pp. 28 Aug. ’91

381. Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry, Thames and Hudson 1959, 20 pp. 1 Sept. ’91

382. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, New Directions 1984 (1937), 170 pp. 15 Sept. ’91

383. George F. Walker, Criminals in Love, Playwrights Canada 1984, 120 pp. 23 Sept. ’91

384. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, Dramatists Play Service 1969 (1939), 25 Sept. ’91

385. Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, Faber and Faber 1972, 89 pp. 26 Sept. ’91

386. Michel Tremblay, Hosanna, Talon 1980 (1973), 102 pp. 26 Sept. ’91

387. Tom Stoppard, Night and Day, Faber and Faber 1978, 94 pp. 26 Sept. ’91

388. Ivan Turgenev, First Love and Other Stories, Oxford 1989 (1850-1881), 298 pp. 11 Oct. ’91

389. Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1974, 198 pp. 19 Oct. ’91

390. Deborah Tannen, That’s Not What I Meant, Ballantine 1986, 209 pp. 26 Oct. ’91

391. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple, St. Martin’s Press 1988, pp. 111, 1 Nov. ’91

392. Donald Richie, Different People — Pictures of Some Japanese, Kodansha 1987, 204 pp. 3 Nov. ’91

393. Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way, McClelland and Stewart 1987, 396 pp. 11 Nov. ’91

394. Ingrid MacDonald, Catherine, Catherine, Women’s Press 1991, 142 pp. 13 Nov. ’91

395. Chet Flippo, Your Cheatin’ Heart, Doubleday 1985, 251 pp. 21 Nov. ’91

396. Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, New Directions 1958, 254 pp. 27 Nov. ’91

397. Ann Copeland, The Golden Thread, Harper Collins 1989, 274 pp. 30 Nov. ’91

398. Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, Viking 1989, 309 pp. 9 Dec. ’91

399. Andre Brink, The Wall of the Plague, faber and faber 1984, 446 pp. 17 Dec. ’91

400. Mary Burns, Shinny’s Girls, Talonbooks 1989, 204 pp. 20 Dec. ’91

401. Karen Lawrence, The Life of Helen Alone, Ballantine 1986, 293 pp. 22 Dec. ’91

402. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Knopf 1990, 245 pp. 24 Dec. ’91

403. Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That, Penguin 1982 (1929), 282 pp. 2 Jan. ’92

404. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, The Heritage Press 1932, 183 pp. 8 Jan. ’92

405. Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, Random House 1979, 327 pp. 24 Jan. ’92

406. Deepak Chopra, Unconditional Life: Mastering the Forces That Shape Personal Reality, Bantam 1991, 277 pp. 15 Feb. ’92

407. Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man, Penguin 1988 (1959), 189 pp. 26 Feb. ’92

408. Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes, Vintage 1972 (1964), 241 pp. 8 Mar. ’92

409. Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, Kodansha 1969, 149 pp. 14 Mar. ’92

410. R.D. Laing, Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist, McGraw Hill 1985, 146 pp. 23 Mar.’92

411. Rumi, Open Secrets, John Moyne and Coleman Barks, Threshold Books 1984, 82 pp. 1 Apr. ’92

412. Swami Sivananda Radha, Kundalini Yoga for the West, Shambhala 1985, 357 pp. 15 Apr. ’92

413. Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, Faber and Faber 1986, 206 pp. 20 Apr. ’92

414. David Mamet, On Directing Film, Penguin 1991, 107 pp. 22 Apr. ’92

415. Indies Shah, Learning How to Learn, The Octagon Press 1980 (1978), 302 pp. 9 May ’92

416. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Harrap 1985, 7 May ’92

417. Anton Chekhov, The Duel and Other Stories, The Ecco Press 1986, pp. 323 20 May ’92

418. Anton Chekhov, The Party and Other Stories, The Ecco Press 1984, pp. 340 27 May ’92

419. Rachna Mara, Of Customs and Excise, Second Story Press 1991, 119 pp. 2 Jun. ’92

420. Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels, Ballantine Books 1990, pp. 295 13 Jun. ’92

421. Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Lapdog, The Ecco Press 1984, pp. 300 23 Jun. ’92

422. Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills, faber and faber 1982, pp. 183 28 Jun.’92

423. Brendan Cleary, White Bread and ITV, Wide Skirt Press 1990, 63 pp. 21 Jul. ’92

424. Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, Vintage 1959, 376 pp. 29 Jul. ’92

425. O.R. Melling (Geraldine Whelan), Falling Out of Time, Penguin 1988, 201 pp. 31 Jul. ’92

426. Malcolm Bradbury, Cuts, Arena Novella 1988, 127 pp. 4 Aug. ’92

427. Voltaire, Candide, Penguin 1954 (1947/1758), 144 pp. 13 Aug. ’92

428. Raymond Deane, Death of a Medium, Odell and Adair 1991, 226 pp. 24 Aug. ’92

429. Kenneth Clark, Landscape Into Art, John Murray 1976 (1949), 248 pp. 6 Sept. ’92

450. Eudora Welty, Golden Apples, Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1949, 24 Sept. ’92

451. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Seance, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1968, 276 pp. 5 Oct. ’92

452. Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, Schocken Books 1984 (1975), 233 pp. 19 Oct. ’92

453. Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds, Penguin 1984 (1177), 234 pp. 27 Oct. ’92

454. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985 (1837-1839), 490 pp. 14 Nov. ’92

455. Douglas Glover, A Guide to Animal Behaviour, Goose Lane 1991, 189 pp. 15 Nov. ’92

456. Paddy O’Brien, A Gentler Strength – The Yoga Book for Woman, Thorsons 1991, 157 pp. 16 Nov. ’92

457. Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever, Penguin 1988, 234 pp. 22 Nov. ’92

458. Unwinding Threads: Writings by Women in Africa, Charlotte H. Bruner ed., Heineman 1987, 208 pp. 5 Dec. ’92

459. Joan Goldstein and Manuela Soares, The Joy Within: A Beginner’ s Guide to Meditation, Prentice Hall 1990, 120 pp. 5 Dec. ’92

460. Steven Heighton, Flight Paths of the Emperor, The Porcupine’s Quill 1992, 200 pp. 11 Dec. ’92

461. John E. Coleman, The Quiet Mind, Harper and Row 1971, 239 pp. 14 Dec. ’92

462. Jane Austen, Emma, Penguin 1972 (1816), 471 pp. 27 Dec. ’92

463. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, Vintage 1991, 331 pp. 28 Dec. ’92

464. Jane Austen, Persuasion and A Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh, Penguin 1971 (1818/1870), 399 pp. 2 Jan.’93

465. Deirdre Purcell, That Childhood Country, McMillan 1992, pp. 541 10 Jan.’93

466. Jorge Luis Borges, Doctor Brodie’s Report, E.P. Dutton 1972, 128 pp. 19 Jan. ’93

467. Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam 1984, 272 pp. 8 Feb. ’93

468. Ian McEwan, The Child in Time, Houghton Mifflin 1987, 263 pp. 13 Feb. ’93

469. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Vintage 1989, 144 pp. 24 Feb. ’93

470. Louise Erdrich, Tracks, Henry Holt and Co. 1988, 226 pp. 5 Mar. ’93

471. The Journey Prize Anthology #4, McClelland and Stewart 1992, 242 pp. 22 Mar.’93

472. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen, Grove Press 1988 (trans. 1993), 152 pp. 9 Apr. ’93

473. Linda Svendsen, Marine Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 165 pp. 10 Apr. ’93

474. Ian McEwan, Black Dogs, Jonathan Cape 1992, 174 pp. 27 Apr. ’93

475. Eknath Easwaran, Meditation, Niligiri Press 1992 (1961), 251 pp. 2 May, ’93

476. Jorges Luis Borges, Labyrinths – Selected Stories and Other Writings, New Directions 1962, 248 pp. 9 May ’93

477. John Irving, The World According to Garp, E.P. Dutton 1976, 437 pp. 26 May ’93

478. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Pandora 1985, 176 pp. 3 Jun. ’93

479. Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints, Cormorant 1990, 238 pp. 6 Jun. ’93

480. Elle Friedman Becker, Female Sexuality Following Spinal Cord Injury, Accent Special Publications 1978, 273 pp. 14 Jun.’93

481. S.C. Vasu, An Introduction to the Yoga Philosophy, neprint 1981, 80 pp. 15 Jun. ’93

482. Effortless Being: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Alistair Shearer trans., Mandala 1982, 128 pp. 30 Jun. ’93

483. Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, Bloomsbury 1991 (1987), 262 pp. 30 Jun. ’93

484. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, G. P. Putman’s 1989, 288 pp. 7 Jul. ’93

485. Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands, The Porcupine’s Quill 1991, 124 pp. 14 Jul. ’93

486. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, McClelland and Stewart 1992, 307 pp. 24 Jul. ’93

487. Mordecai Richler, Joshua, Then and Now, McClelland and Stewart 1980, 435 pp. 2 Aug. ’93

488. Rumi, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion, Coleman Banks trans., Threshold Books 1991, 103 pp. 3 Aug. ’93

489. Italo Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich 1979, 260 pp. 10 Aug. ’93

490. Graham Swift, Waterland, Picador 1984 (1983), 310 pp. 15 Aug. ’93

491. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bantam 1980 (1970), 246 pp. 21 Aug. ’93

492. Ven Begamudre, Van de Graff Days, Oolichan 1993, 295 pp. 16 Sept. ’99

493.  The Journey Prize Anthology 5, McClelland and Stewart 1993, 259 pp. 25 Sept. ’93

494. Raymond Carver, Short Cuts, Vintage 1993, 157 pp. 6 Oct. ’93

495. Eric Taub, Gaffers, Grips and Best Boys: Who Does What in the Making of a Motion Picture, St. Martin’s Press 1987, 200 pp. 18 Oct. ’93

496. John Metcalf, Shooting the Stars, The Porcupine’s Quill, 252 pp. 23 Oct. ’93

497. Mavis Gallant, Green Water, Green Sky, MacMillan 1983 (1959), 154 pp. 27 Oct. ’93

498. The Dhammapada, Juan Mascaro trans., Penguin 1973, 93 pp. 8 Nov. ’93

499. Kent Nussey, In Christ There Is No East or West, Quarry Press 1992, 167 pp. 16 Nov. ’93

500. Gordon Pape, Building Your Wealth and Achieving Your Financial Goals, Prentice- Hall 1988, 246 pp. 24 Nov. ’93

* This was foisted on me by a dear, concerned friend.  Could I have actually read it?

501. Hugh McClelland, Two Solitudes, Popular Library 1945, 383 pp. 10 Dec. ’93

502. Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate, Vintage 1991 (1986) 307 pp. 13 Dec. ’93

503. Carol Windley, Visible Light, Oolichan 1993, 263 pp. 16 Dec. ’93

504. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, Bantam 1982 (1874) 326 pp. 22 Dec. ’93

505. David Chilton, The Wealthy Barber, Stoddard 1989, 197 pp. 23 Dec. ’93

* Another one!

506. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Bantam 1971 (1922), 152 pp. 24 Dec. ’93

507. Annie Dillard, The Living, Harper Collins 1992, 397 pp. 28 Dec. ’93

508. Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, Collier 1961 (1958), 157 pp. 3 Jan. ’94

509. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1948 (1850), 272 pp. 19 Jan. ’94

510. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, MacMillan 1965 (1878), 505 pp. 6 Feb. ’94

511. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, New Directions 1962 (1933/1939), 247 pp. 27 Feb. ’94

512. William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid, Ballantine 1989 (1977), 541 pp. 12 Mar. ’94

513. Saul Bellow, Hertzog, Penguin 1985 (1964) 341 pp. 2 Apr. ’94

514. Nathanael West, The Complete Works, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1966 (1931-34) 421 pp. 3 Apr. ’94

515. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, Vintage 1992, 302 pp. 8 Apr. ’94

516. Elizabeth Ukrainentz, Baby I Love You, Exile Editions 1993, 59 pp. 15 Apr. ’94

517. Douglas Glover, The Life and Times of Captain N., Knopf 1993, 185 pp. 19 Apr. ’94

518. Eliza Clark, What You Need, Somerville House 1994, 164 pp. 2 May ’94

519. John Mills, Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits, The Porcupine’s Quill 1993, 270 pp. 14 May, ’94

520. John Mills, Skevington’s Daughter, Oberon 1978, 195 pp. 20 May ’94

521. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, Doubleday 1990 (1956), 498 pp. 7 Jun. ’94

522. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire, Doubleday 1991 (1957), 422 pp. 18 Jun. ’94

523. Rosellen Brown, Before and After, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1992, 354 pp. 26 Jun. ’94

524. Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street, Doubleday 1992 (1957), 308 pp. 1 Jul. ’94

525. Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans, The Porcupine’s Quill 1994, 129 pp. 3 Jul. ’94

526. Nick Warburton, The Thirteenth Owl, Random House 1993, 124 pp. 11 Jul. ’94

527. Janet Frame, The Edge of the Alphabet, George Braziller 1962, 303 pp. 22 Jul. ’94

528. Richard Outram, Mogul Recollected, The Porcupine’s Quill 1993, 82 pp. 31 Jul. ’94

529. Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time, Flamingo 1977, 159 pp. 7 Aug. ’94

530. Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices – A Journey Into the World of the Deaf, University of California Press 1989, 180 pp. 11 Aug. ’94

531. Saint Augustine, Confessions, Penguin 1977 (1961, 397-8 AD) 252 pp. 17 Sept. ’94

532. Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, Penguin 1987 (1965, 1550) 477 pp. 26 Sept. ’94

533. Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Vintage 1993, 361 pp. 8 Oct. 94

534. Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle, J.P. Lippincott 1961, 156 pp. 10 Oct. ’94

535. Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Vintage 1979 (1976), 281 pp. 22 Oct. ’94

536. Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1965 (1940), 527 pp. 17 Nov. ’94

537. Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride, Doubleday 1993, 466 pp. 23 Nov. ’94

538. Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Cresset Press 1952, 190 pp. 29 Nov. ’94

539. Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, International Collectors Library (1946/1940), 420 pp. 20 Dec. 94

540. Gary Whitehead, I Can Fix Anything, Arsenal Pulp Press 1994, 154 pp. 24 Dec. ’94

541. Alice Munro, Open Secrets, McClelland and Stewart 1994, 294 pp. 26 Dec. ’94

542. Oakland Ross, Guerrilla Beach, Cormorant 1994, 283 pp. 29 Dec. ’94

543. Milan Kundera, The Joke, Harper Collins 1992 (1967), 317 pp. 9 Jan. ’95

544. Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves, Penguin 1987 (1969) 240 pp. 13 Jan. ’95

545. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Harper and Row 1984 314 pp. 18 Jan. ’95

*546. E.M. Forester, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Heineman 1978 (1905), 106 pp. (of a volume with his other novels), 19 Jan. ’95

*Here in the reading log I accidentally transposed the number of this book to 456.  I am correcting the error for this digital version of the log though, because of this, the photographs of the log will no longer correspond with this list.

547. J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories, Little, Brown and Co. 1948, 302 pp. 30 Jan. ’95

548. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Bantam 1951, 214 pp. 1 Feb. ’95

549. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Signet 1952 (1947), 503 pp. 17 Feb. ’95

550. Lorrie Moore, Like Life, faber and faber 1990, 178 pp. 18 Feb. ’95

551. Peter Hoeg, Smila’s Sense of Snow, Dell 1993 (1992), 499 pp. 2 Mar. ’95

552. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bloomsbury Classics 1992 (1966), 249 pp. 14 Mar. ’95

553. Angela Carter, Artificial Fire, McClelland and Stewart 1989 (1971, 1974), 236 pp. 28 Mar. ’95

554. Russell Smith, How Insensitive, The Porcupine’s Quill 1994, 258 pp. 30 Mar. ’95

555. Gustave Flaubert, A Sentimental Education, Penguin 1964 (1869), 430 pp. 16 Apr. ’95

556. Gayla Reid, To Be There With You, Douglas and McIntyre 1994, 218 pp. 30 Apr. ’95

557. E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Simon and Schuster 1993, 337 pp. 7 May ’95

558. Jennifer Mitton, Sleeping with the Insane, Goose Lane 1995, 178 pp. 20 May ’95

559. Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing, George Braziller 1975 (1974), 219 pp. 26 May ’95

560. James Wilcox, Modern Baptists, The Dial Press 1983, 239 pp. 3 Jun. ’95

561. Beryl Bainbridge, Sweet William, George Braziller 1976, 204 pp. 10 Jun. ’95

562. Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols, Doubleday 1964, 318 pp. 16 Jun. ’95

563. Sharon Riis, The True Story of Ida Johnson, Douglas and McIntyre 1989 (1976), 126 Jun. ’95

564. Sharon Riis, Midnight Twilight Tourist Zone, Douglas and McIntyre 1989, 136 pp. 18 Jun. ’95

565. Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, Knopf 1992, 371 pp. 24 Jun. ’95

566. John Metcalf, General Ludd, ECW Press 1980, 301 pp. 7 July ’95

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569. Guy Vanderhaeghe, Things As They Are?, McClelland and Stewart 1992, 249 pp. 1 Aug. ’95

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574. Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk and Peasants, Penguin 1995, 90 pp. 4 Oct. ’95

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576. The Inferno of Dante, Robert Pinksy, trans., Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994, 427 pp. 28 Oct. ’95

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579. Martin Allerdale Grainger, Woodsmen of the West, Horsdal and Schubart 1994 (1908), 216 pp. 21 Nov. ’95

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583. The New Oxford Book of Short Stories in English, Robert Weaver and Margaret Atwood eds., Oxford University Press 1995, 460 pp. 26 Dec. ’95

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608. Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Minerva 1995 (1994), 436 pp. 17 Jun. ’96

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611. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Collier 1992 (1925), 217 pp. 6 Jul. ’96

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614. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, Summit Books 1988 (1986), 203 pp. 17 Jul. ’96

615. Virgil, The Aeneid, David West trans., Penguin 1991, 353 pp. 8 Aug. ’96

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617. Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Pantheon 1985, 117 pp. 17 Aug. ’96

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619. David Bergen, A Year of Lesser, Harper Collins 1996, 215 pp. 3 Sept. ’96

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621. Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1996, 228 pp. 21 Sept. ’96

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623. Diana Hartog, The Photographer’s Sweethearts, The Overlook Press 1996, 240 pp. 3 Oct. ’96

624. Cynthia Holz, Onlyville, The Porcupine’s Quill 1995, 190 pp. 10 Oct. ’96

625. Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Penguin 1971 (1969), 186 pp. 22 Oct. ’96

626. Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Penguin 1994 (1907), 249 pp. 26 Oct. ’96

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630. Pascal Jardin, Vichy Boyhood, Faber and Faber 1975 (1971), 136 pp. 22 Nov. ’96

631. Jonathan Wilson, Schoom, Penguin 1993, 1 Dec. ’96

632. Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl, Somerville House 1995, 196 pp. 15 Dec. ’96

633. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, McLelland and Stewart 1993 (1982), 182 pp. 19 Dec. ’96

634. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Knopf 1992 (1955), 335 pp. 20 Dec. ’96

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637. Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony, Douglas and McIntyre 1995, 238 pp. 5 Feb. ’97

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639. Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy, The Porcupine’s Quill 1995, 584 pp. 9 Mar. ’97

640. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Negro University Press 1969 (1937), 286 pp. 11 Mar. ’97

641. William H. Gass, The Tunnel, Knopf 1995, 652 pp. 8 Apr. ’97

642. Jane Mendelsohn, I Was Amelia Earhart, Knopf 1996, 146 pp. 15 Apr. ’97

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644. Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees, Knopf 1996, 566 pp. 9 May, ’97

645. Anton Chekhov, The Wife and Other Stories, Ecco Press 1985, 312 pp. 16 May, ’97

646. Alice Munro, Selected Stories, McClelland and Stewart 1996, 546 pp. 22 Jun. ’97

647. Anton Chekhov, The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, Ecco Press 1985, 301 pp. 27 Jun. ’97

648. The Diary of Anne Frank, Pan 1954 (1947), 224 pp. 7 Jul. ’97

649. Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman, Somerville House 1995, 268 pp. 12 Jul. ’97

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651. Pat Barker, An Eye in the Door, William Abrams 1995, 280 pp. 1 Aug. ’97

652. David Cronenburg, Crash- The Screenplay, faber and faber 1996, 65 pp. 4 Aug. ’97

653. Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Penguin 1991 (1957), 303 pp. 9 Aug. ’97

654. John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure, Henry Holt 1996, 251 pp. 12 Aug. ’97

655. Barbara Gowdy, We So Seldom Look on Love, Somerville House 1992, pp. 209 19 Aug. ’97

656. Elma Softic, Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo Nights, Key Porter 1995, 200 pp. 23 Aug. ’97

657. Nader Mousavizadeh (editor), The Black Book of Bosnia, Basic Books 1996, 219 pp. 30 Aug. ’97

658. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes, Scribner 1996, 364 pp. 11 Sept. ’97

659. Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, McClelland and Stewart 1996, 476 pp. 20 Sept. ’97

660. Tomas Eloy Martinez, Santa Evita, Knopf 1997, 371 pp. 10 Oct. ’97

661. Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet, Sceptre 1995, 218 pp. 15 Oct. ’97

662. Patrick Suskind, The Pigeon, Knopf, 1988, 115 pp. 16 Oct. ’97

663. Edmundo Desnoes, Inconsolable Memories, The New American Library 1967 (1965), 155 pp. 24 Oct. ’97

664. Heberto Padilla, Heros Are Grazing in My Garden, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1984 (1981), 250 pp. 29 Oct. ’97

665. Matt Cohen, Last Seen, Knopf 1996, 212pp. 8 Nov. ’97

666. Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm, Random House 1988 (1987), 144 pp. 10 Nov. ’97

667. Alejo Carpentier, Explosion in a Cathedral, Harper and Row 1963 (1962), 351 pp. 19 Nov. ’97

668. Austin Clarke, The Origin of Waves, McClelland and Stewart 1997, 245 pp. 27 Nov. ’97

669. Alejo Carpentier, Concierto Barroco, Council Oak Books 1988 (1974), 135 pp. 30 Nov. ’97

670. Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers, Harper Colophon 1965 (1971), 487 pp. 18 Dec. ’97

671. Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World, Penguin 1982 (1966), 95 pp. 21 Dec. ’97

672. J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin 1980, 155 pp. 23 Dec. ’97

673. Bessie Head, Maru, Heinemann 1995 (1971), 127 pp. 24 Dec. ’97

674. Nadine Gordimer, A World of Strangers, Penguin 1984 (1958), 266 pp. 31 Dec. ’97

675. Andre Brink, A Dry White Season, Star 1980, 316 pp. 4 Jan. ’98

676. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (abridged), Nolwazi 1996, 122 pp. 5 Jan. ’98

677. The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories, 1985, 328 pp. 13 Jan.’98

678. Elsa Joubert, Poppie, Coronet 1980, 355 pp. 15 Jan. ’98

679. Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Fourth Estate 1997, 139 pp. 19 Jan. ’98

670. Barbara Gowdy, Falling Angels, Somerville House 1989, 192 pp. 31 Jan. ’98

671. Jack Hodgins, A Passion for Narrative, McClelland and Stewart 1993, 298 pp. 6 Feb. ’98

672. Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath, Knopf 1993, 237 pp. 7 Feb. ’98

673. Kenzaburo Oe, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Grove Press 1977, 261 pp. 1 Mar. ’98

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675. James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Dell 1981 (1952), 221 pp. 24 Mar. ’98

676. Edmund White, A Boy’s Own Story, E.P. Dutton 1982, 218 pp. 2 Apr. ’98

677. Murray Logan, The King of Siam, The Porcupine’s Quill 1998, 168 pp. 13 Apr. ’98

678. Laura Lush, Fault Line, Vehicule Press 1997, 86 pp. 17 Apr. ’98

679. Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces, McClelland and Stewart 1996, 294 pp. 23 Apr. ’98

680. Keath Fraser, As For Me and My Body: A Memoir or Sinclair Ross, ECW Press 1997, 96 pp. 30 Apr. ’98

681. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night, Press Gang 1996, 249 pp. 16 May ’98

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683. Colm Toibin, The Story of the Night, Henry Holt and Co. 1996, 324 pp. 22 May ’98

684. Colette, The Claudine Novels: Claudine and School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, Claudine and Annie, Penguin 1963 (1900, 1901, 1902, 1903), 21 Jun. ’98

685. Helene Littmann, Peripheries, Cormorant 1989, 265 pp. 2 Jul. ’98

686. Philip Marchand, Ripostes, The Porcupine’s Quill, 197 pp. 9 Jul. ’98

687. Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Jonathan Cape 1984, 184 pp. 11 Jul. ’98

688. Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Knopf 1988, 228 pp. 15 Jul. ’98

689. Joan Didion, Democracy, Simon and Schuster 1984, 234 pp. 19 Jul. ’98