What I read: 1989

What do you care what I read in 1989? 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. Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency by Douglas Adams
   
2. The leper of St. Giles by Ellis Peters
   
3. Other Americas by Normal Spinrad
   
4. Cabal by Clive Barker
   
5. Knight life by Peter David
   
6. 2061: Odyssey three by Arthur C. Clarke
   
7. The green train by Herbert Lieberman
   
8. One-L by Scott Turow
   
9. Survivors by Jean Lorrah
   
10. In the ocean of night by Gregory Benford
    
11. The hunting season by John Coyne
    
12. Mindkiller by Spider Robinson
    
13. The king of the Murgos by David Eddings
    
14. I'll cry when I kill you by Peter Israel
    
15. XPD by Len Deighton
    
16. Spock must die! by James Blish
    
17. The jagged orbit by John Brunner
    
18. Crimson joy by Robert B. Parker
    
19. Memory prime by Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens
    
20. Pet sematary by Stephen King
    
21. This is the way the world ends by James Morrow
    
22. Hot blood edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend
    
23. Seventh son by Orson Scott Card
    
24. The gold coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
    
25. Ghoul by Michael Slade
    
26. Replay by Ken Grimwood
    
27. The hormone jungle by Robert Reed
    
28. The hunt for red october by Tom Clancy
    
29. Prime evil edited by Douglas E. Winter
    
30. Angry candy by Harlan Ellison
    
31. Bill, the galactic hero by Harry Harrison
    
32. Unicorn mountain by Michael Bishop
    
33. Spock's world by Diane Duane
    
34. The eyes of the dragon by Stephen King
    
35. The colour out of time by Michael Shea
    
36. The suiting by Kelley Wilde
    
37. Bare bones edited by Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller
    
38. The Barsoom project by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes
    
39. Greenmantle by John Buchan
    
40. Rogue male by Geoffrey Household
    
41. Fade by Robert Cormier
    
42. An edge in my voice by Harlan Ellison
    
43. Journey into fear by Eric Ambler
    
44. The spy who came in from the cold by John Le Carre
    
45. What might have been: I edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
    
46. Howling mad by Peter David
    
47. Myth inc link by Robert Asprin
    
48. Adversary by Daniel Rhodes
    
49. The year's best horror: 11 edited by Karl Edward Wagner
    
50. Mort by Terry Pratchett
    
51. Obsession by Ramsey Campbell
    
52. The motion of light in water by Samuel R. Delany
    
53. Lullaby by Ed McBain
    
54. The Kobayashi Maru by Julia Eckler