Books Read in 1998

Flushed with success at teaching college-level courses, I soon learned to cockily neglect student papers in favor of reading more interesting (and literate) fare. I also took a literature course on drug addiction and another on James Joyce, which may explain some of the more esoteric titles in this list. To this day, I want to get a tattoo of a phrase from Ulysses; I just haven't decided which one yet.

Here's Bill's shockingly incomplete list.

Total number of pages read: 6546
Pages read in 1990: 7743
Pages read in 1991: 4870
Pages read in 1992: 5395
Pages read in 1993: 7568
Pages read in 1994: 4441
Pages read in 1995: 5417
Pages read in 1996: 4268
Pages read in 1997: 6890

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (trans. Frances Frenaye)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Ulysses by James Joyce (ed. Hans Walter Gabler)
The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
Pronto by Elmore Leonard
Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes" by Greil Marcus
Star Trek TNG: Q-Space by Greg Cox

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