What I read: 1988

What do you care what I read in 1988? Nothing, of course, but I do. As I get older (I was 20 in 1983 when I started keeping track of the books I read) I find myself more and more in the position of looking at a stack of books on my shelves by, say, Cornell Woolrich and they all have the word "Black" in the title. I know I've read a couple but I can't remember which ones. Fortunately, I've been maintaining a little list in a little brown book since April 1983 of all the books I've read (or at least attempted). By putting this list here it will be searchable. I may ultimately put at least some of it in something like LibraryThing, but for now I'll be putting it here. The advantage is that the blog is quick and dirty, without a lot of effort per entry. The books are in the order I read them.

By way of adding some value to the list, I'll italicize any work that I remember as being particularly wonderful

1. Thunderball by Ian Fleming
   
2. The alteration by Kingsley Amis
   
3. A fine and private place by Peter S. Beagle
   
4. The lights in the sky are stars by Fredric Brown
5. Myth directions by Robert Asprin
   
6. The end of the night by John D. Macdonald
   
7. The brotherhood of the rose by David Morrell
   
8. Ender's game by Orson Scott Card
   
9. Her death of cold by Ralph McInerny
   
10. The moon godess and the sun by Donald Kingsbury
    
11. Shadow land by Peter Straub
    
12. Chernobyl by Frederik Pohl
    
13. The godwulf manuscript by Robert B. Parker
    
14. Bloodthirst by J.M. Dillard
    
15. The shore of women by Pamela Sargent
    
16. The witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
    
17. Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
    
18. Dagon by Fred Chappell
    
19. The panic of '89 by Paul Erdman
    
20. Rumplestiltskin by Ed McBain
    
21. Hit or myth by Robert Asprin
    
22. Bio of a space tyrant 5: Stateman by Piers Anthony
    
23. The red fox by Anthony Hyde
    
24. Ancient of days by Michael Bishop
    
25. A friendship: The letters of Dan Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967-1974 by Dan Rowan and John D. MacDonald
    
26. The devil in velvet by John Dickson Carr
    
27. The guardians of the west by David Eddings
    
28. The annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl
    
29. Valediction by Robert B. Parker
    
30. Hold on, Mr. President by Sam Donaldson
    
31. The widening gyre by Robert B. Parker
    
32. The songs of distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
    
33. Radix by A.A. Attanasio
    
34. Pale kings and princes by Robert B. Parker
    
35. The princess bride by William Goldman
    
36. Ironweed by William Kennedy
    
37. The vampire tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
    
38. The blue hammer by Ross MacDonald
    
39. Pavane by Keith Roberts
    
40. Be true to your school by Bob Greene
    
41. Dark horse by Fletcher Knebel
    
42. Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card
    
43. Final frontier by Diane Carey
    
44. Glitz by Elmore Leonard
    
45. The black robe by Brian Moore
    
46. Tuf voyaging by George R.R. Martin
    
47. The long night of the grave by Charles L. Grant
    
48. Lovecraft's book by Richard Lupoff
    
49. The eagle has landed by Jack Higgins
    
50. The Bourne identity by Robert Ludlum
    
51. Myth-ing persons by Robert Asprin
    
52. Dead image by Clive Barker
    
53. Heavenly breakfast by Samuel R. Delany
    
54. The dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
    
55. Sleepless nights in the procrustean bed by Harlan Ellison
    
56. Full spectrum edited by Lou Aronica and Sheila McCarthy
    
57. Next, after Lucifer by Daniel Rhodes
    
58. Children of the shroud by Garfield Reeves-Stephens
    
59. The incorporated knight by L. Sprague de Camp
    
60. Early autumn by Robert B. Parker
    
61. The fraternity of the stone by David Morrell
    
62. The dragon in the sword by Michael Moorcock
    
63. Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter
    
64. Gorky park by Martin Cruz Smith
    
65. Station Gehenna by Andrew Weiner
    
66. Dress her in indigo by John D. Macdonald
    
67. Dark valley destiny by L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin
    
68. The best of Jack Williamson by Jack Williamson
    
69. Little myth marker by Robert Asprin