Books Read in 1999

In '99, I was editing Petroglyph, a magazine of creative nature writing. So, again, I wasn't reading a lot of books, but I was reading a lot. Mostly poetry. Bad poetry. Lots and lots of bad poetry.

Though I didn't read many books in 1999, the ones that I did read were, for the most part, exceptional, including the best books I have ever read about Elvis Presley and the U.S. space program.

Total number of pages read: 4324
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
Pages read in 1998: 6546

Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle
Waterland by Graham Swift
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Rise and Fall of English by Robert Scholes
Aftermath by Charles Sheffield
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the "Apollo" Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie