What I read: 1990

What do you care what I read in 1990? 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. Ace Double: The color of neanderthal eyes by James Tiptree, Jr. // And strange at ecbatan the trees by Michael Bishop
   
2. Black sun rising by Frederik Pohl
   
3. Lincoln's dreams by Connie Willis
   
4. Through darkest America by Neal Barrett, jr.
   
5. The scream by John Skipp and Craig Spector
   
6. Marching through Georgia by S.M. Stirling
   
7. Demon lord of Karanda by David Eddings
   
8. Playmates by Robert B. Parker
   
9. Narabedla, Inc. by Frederik Pohl
   
10. The colour of magic by Terry Prachett
    
11. Only apparently real by Paul Williams
    
12. Black dahlia by James Ellroy
    
13. Wonder's child by Jack Williamson
    
14. Callahan's secret by Spider Robinson
    
15. When gravity fails by George Alec Effinger
    
16. Blood of the impaler by Jeffrey Sackett
    
17. Nighteyes by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
    
18. The maker of Dune by Frank Herbert
    
19. Islands in the net by Bruce Sterling
    
20. Bio of an ogre by Piers Anthony
    
21. Slaves of the volcano god by Craig Shaw Gardner
    
22. Headhunter by Michael Slade
    
23. Winter palace by Dennis Jones
    
24. Strike zone by Peter David
    
25. The wolf's hour by Robert R. McCammon
    
26. Love and marriage by Bill Cosby
    
27. Doctor's orders by Diane Duane
    
28. Tau zero by Poul Anderson
    
29. Metamorphosis by David Suzuki
    
30. The skin trade edited by Douglas E. Winter
    
31. The league of night and fog by David Morrell
    
32. I hope I shall arrive soon by Philip K. Dick
    
33. A is for alibi by Sue Grafton
    
34. Peter Cushing: An autobiography by Peter Cushing
    
35. Presumed innocent by Scott Turow
    
36. Deserted cities of the heart by Lewis Shiner
    
37. The exorcist by William Peter Blatty
    
38. Lori by Robert Bloch
    
39. Good times by Russell Baker
    
40. Ace Double: Enemy mine by Barry B. Longyear // Another orphan by John Kessel
    
41. A talent for war by Jack McDevitt
    
42. The evolution man by Roy Lewis
    
43. Ancient images by Ramsey Campbell
    
44. Science fiction in the real world by Norman Spinrad
    
45. Digging dinosaurs by Jack R. Horner
    
46. Star Trek: The lost years by J.M. Dillard
    
47. Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick
    
48. The god box by Barry B. Longyear
    
49. The silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris
    
50. Becoming a technical leader by Gerald M. Weinberg
    
51. Misery by Stephen King
    
52. Star wreck by Leah Rewolinski
    
53. Running wild by J.G. Ballard
    
54. Sea of glass by Barry B. Longyear
    
55. Dark dreamers by Stanley Wiater
    
56. Red prophet by Orson Scott Card
    
57. The chocolat war by Robert Cormier
    
58. Managing programming people by Philip Metzger
    
59. Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
    
60. Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
    
61. The healer's war by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
    
62. The right place at the right time by Robert MacNeil
    
63. Sepulchre by James Herbert
    
64. Bill: Planet of the robot slaves by Harry Harrison
    
65. A hidden place by Robert Charles Wilson
    
66. Book of the dead by John Skipp and Craig Spector