What I read: 1991

What do you care what I read in 1991? 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. American vampires by Norine Dresser
   
2. Carrion comfort by Dan Simmons
   
3. Bone by George C. Chesbro
   
4. Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
   
5. That's not all folks by Mel Blanc
   
6. Vespers by Ed McBain
   
7. Strange invasion by Michael Kandel
   
8. The ascension factor by Michael Bishop
   
9. Software conflict by Robert Glass
   
10. The cipher by Kathe Koja
    
11. Prime directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
    
12. The dark half by Stephen King
    
13. The thief of time by Tony Hillerman
    
14. Cutter by Edward Bryant
    
15. Yellow fog by Les Daniels
    
16. A fire in the sun by George Alec Effinger
    
17. Xolotl by Robert Sheckley
    
18. The game by Ken Dryden
    
19. Poodle springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
    
20. The SFWA handbook edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith
    
21. Rules of prey by John Sanford
    
22. Flag full of stars by Brad Ferguson
    
23. The killer inside me by Jim Thompson
    
24. Stardust by Robert B. Parker
    
25. The fifth profession by David Morrell
    
26. Songs from the starts by Norman Spinrad
    
27. Deadlines by John Skipp and Craig Spector
    
28. Polar city blues by Katherine Kerr
    
29. Esse hominid by Esther Friesner
    
30. Gauntlet edited by Barry Hoffmann
    
31. Sunglasses after dark by Nancy A. Collins
    
32. Vendetta by Peter David
    
33. The girl who fell from the sky by Kate Wilhelm
    
34. A case of mistaken identity by L. Timmel Duchamp
    
35. Black cherry blues by James Lee Burke
    
36. Good news from outer space by John Kessel
    
37. Lords of the line by David Cruise & Alison Griffiths
    
38. Murder can be fun by Frederic Brown
    
39. The city, not long after by Pat Murphy
    
40. Wizardry & wild romance by Michael Moorcock
    
41. Hard candy by Andrew Vachss
    
42. Mark of the werewolf by Jeffrey Sackett
    
43. Only begotten daughter by James Morrow
    
44. Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams
    
45. The mythical man month by Fred L. Brooks
    
46. Slob by Rex Miller
    
47. Myth-nomers and Impervections by Robert Asprin
    
48. The further adventures of the Joker edited by Martin H. Greenberg
    
49. What might have been VII edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
    
50. Batman: Captured by the Engines by Joe R. Lansdale
    
51. My enemy, my ally by Diane Duane
    
52. Homegoing by Frederik Pohl
    
53. A morning for flamingoes by James Lee Burke
    
54. A burden of proof by Scott Turow
    
55. Obsession by Rick Reed
    
56. Sunday best by Edward O. Phillips
    
57. The quickening by Michael Bishop
    
58. City of truth by James Morrow
    
59. Pacific edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
    
60. Under the yoke by S.M. Stirling
    
61. The will to swing by Gene Lees
    
62. Wyrd sisters by Terry Pratchett
    
63. The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
    
64. The Romulan way by Diane Duane & Peter Morwood
    
65. Dark matter by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
    
66. Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi by Rob MacGregor
    
67. Russian spring by Norman Spinrad
    
68. No enemy but time by Michael Bishop
    
69. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
    
70. Q-in-law by Peter David
    
71. Killer on the road by James Ellroy
    
72. Four past midnight by Stephen King
    
73. Man-Kzin wars IV by Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear and S.M. Stirling
    
74. Books of blood V by Clive Barker
    
75. Green eyes by Lucius Shepard
    
76. Night by Alan Rodgers
    
77. Jurassic park by Michael Crichton