Books to Recommend (or not)

by John Q McDonald --- 10 April 1998

Past Reads, 1-100

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100. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

99. Medieval in LA by Jim Paul

98. Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen

97. Of the Farm by John Updike

96. Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt

95. Nonconformity by Nelson Algren

94. Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen

93. U and I by Nicholson Baker

92. The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson

91. Fancy Strut by Lee Smith

90. Coming through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

89. Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame

88. Patient by Ben Watt

87. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

86. Murder at Monticello by Rita Mae Brown

85. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

84. Slowness by Milan Kundera

83. Nana by Emile Zola

82. Maria X by Joan V. Herndon

81. The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington

80. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

79. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

78. Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

77. Death in the Air by Agatha Christie

76. The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy

75. Living Faith by Jimmy Carter

74. Life, A User's Manual by Georges Perec

73. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

72. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

71. Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

70. Picasso by Gertrude Stein

69. The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

68. What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg

67. The Alienist by Caleb Carr

66. The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

65. Bauhaus by Frank Whitford

64. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

63. The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist

62. The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín

61. A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada edited by Robert L. Reid

60. One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

59. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

58. Sticks & Stones by Lewis Mumford

57. Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

56. The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

55. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

54. Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver

53. Earth Abides by George Stewart

52. Love in the Days of Rage by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

51. The Perfect Machine by Ronald Florence

50. Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

49. The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin

48. East of Lo Monthang by Peter Matthiessen

47. The Loves of Faustyna by Nina FitzPatrick

46. A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

45. Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse

44. Younghusband by Patrick French

43. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

42. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

41. Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon

40. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

39. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

38. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

37. At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen

36. An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch

35. Ordeal by Nevil Shute

34. Ambivalent Zen by Lawrence Shainberg

33. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

32. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

31. The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

30. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

29. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe

28. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

27. Insurgent Mexico by John Reed

26. Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker

25. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

24. In the Ravine by Anton Chekhov

23. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty

22. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

21. City Life by Witold Rybczynski

20. Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna

19. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

18. Ghost Dance by Carole Maso

17. Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman

16. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

14. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham

13. Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen

12. The End of a Primitive by Chester Himes

11. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

10. Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell

9. 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth

8. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

7. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley

6. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

5. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

4. Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury

3. The Times We Had by Marion Davies

2. City of Quartz by Mike Davis

1. Let the Dog Drive by David Bowman