Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 16:29:34 CST
From: "VALENTINE M. SMITH" <cdell@CCTR.UMKC.EDU>
To: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Subject: "1000 Books"

Dear readers -

One of my list members long ago asked me for a "seminal list
of books" I would or could suggest to people for reading. I
keep building on this file, usually because someone reminds
me that I haven't done it in awhile. The list that follows
reflects my personal tastes and interests, and the reader
should be aware that the list contains primarily history,
politics (with a heavy emphasis on Russia and the United
States in the two prior categories), studies of the murder
phenomenon, science fiction, and so-called "mainstream"
novels. I went from "700 Books" to "900 Books" and skipped
"800 Books" altogether, I guess I got a bit enthused about
this project. This "1000 Books" list may be the last for a
while.

This list should not to be construed as totally seminal and
very much not a definitive list, but it does represent books
that have influenced me, taught me, inspired me or that I
liked. So, this list of 1000 (actually 1114) books are what I
would suggest this month and year, as I contend no such lists
are the same from any given month to any other given month,
and vary greatly from year to year. They are not in order of
preference, they are not ranked in any way, though they *do*
reflect my interests, whims and tastes, as I said above -
lots of history, some fantasy and science fiction, a fair
number of novels, a fair number of books about the behavior
of murder in the United States, plus a sprinkling of many
other things, pursuing a primarily self-taught course of
learning about this and that in the world that piqued my
"bump of curiosity." 

This version includes paranthetical comments on some of the
904 titles -  the list could have just as easily been eight
hundred, 1000 books or 1200. I get letters ... "You left out
so-and-so .." a lot, (as I did again putting out "700 Books"
just a few days ago) sometimes they get incorporated in the
next gradiation of the list, sometimes not. I'm somewhat
capricious about book lists, always tinkering, trying to
present those titles which have really meant something one
way or another over the years. Also, a key - + means someone
I've met, * means someone I know

1) Stranger in A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein + (woke me up
to a different way of thinking about myself, and though I see
its flaws now much more clearly than in 1965, I still think
the book awakened me after a long personal wanderjahr into a
stupid hell I largely forged for myself).

2) Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert Heinlein (one of the first
SF books I read, at 12 or 13 years of age, and I thought
about slavery, and sudden accession into wealth, in a
framework at least new to me at the age I read it)

3) PrairyErth - William Least Heat Moon (one of the best
micro-histories and personal accounts I've ever read)

4) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
(perhaps still one of the seminal books dealing with the Nazi
period, one I re-read once a decade))

5) Peter the Great - Robert Massie (well researched, pretty 
accurate as far as I can tell - a popular history)

6) Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert Massie (also a popular
history, but one I've read at least three times)

7) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (once read this book out
loud with a friend in snow-bound Nebraska - winter 1977-78)

8) the Dune series (6 books, especially _Dune) - Frank
Herbert (though I generally don't like series, I offer this
one as a way to look at a single major SF writers's
"definitive project")

a) Dune

b) Dune Messiah (probably the weakest in the series)

c) Children of Dune

d) God Emperor of Dune

e) Heretics of Dune

f) Chapterhouse: Dune (inconclusive ending)

9) The First Deadly Sin - Lawrence Sanders (great suspense,
perhaps one of the best looks at both the mind of a policeman
*and* the mind of a deranged killer I've ever read))

10) The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien (perhaps
the definitive fantasy work in the past fifty years, and
though dead, I contend he remains a major influence on the
fantasy field to this day. I also contend that these books
set the standards and models for most fantasy that has
followed it)

   a) The Fellowship of the Ring

   b) The Two Towers

   c) The Return of the King

11) The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien  (good, but more for
scholars of Tolkien to my thinking)

12) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

13) God Is An Englishman - R.F. Delderfield (I just liked it,
a VERY odd novel)

14) the Robot series (8 books, I think) - Issac Asimov
   
15) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (another great
classic I read at an early age, and re-read just last year)

16) Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe (the first book
I recall reading, at age 6, and still good reading)

17) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

18) The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman  (a very good book
about the beginning of World War I and well-written) 

19) The Embarassment of Riches - Simon Schama (one of the
best books on the history of the Dutch at their height I've
read, also one of the few histories of the Dutch I've ever
seen)

20) Citizen - Simon Schama (flawed, but well done - about the
French revolution)

21) a trilogy by W. Bruce Lincoln (all three worth reading,
provides the reader with a good view of the end of the
Romanov period in Russia and through the World War and the
Civil War afterward)

    a) In War's Dark Shadow

    b) Passage Through Armageddon

    c) Red Victory

22) The Art of War - Sun Tzu

23) The Discoverers - Daniel Boorstein   
                                        (both of these books 
24) The Creators - Daniel Boorstein      are excellent)

25) The Story of Civilization series - Will and Ariel Durant
(12 books - flawed in many ways, but good writing) 

a) Our Oriental Heritage

b) The Life of Greece

c) Caesar and Christ

d) The Age of Faith

e) The Renaissance

f) The Reformation

g) The Age of Reason Begins

h) The Age of Louis XIV

i) The Age of Voltaire

j) Rousseau and Revolution

k) The Age of Napoleon

l) The Lessons of History (a companion volume if one buys the
set)

26) The Double Helix - James D. Watson

27) Einstein, The Life and The Man - Ronald Clark (the best
bio of the phycisist's life extant, to my mind)

28) An American Melodrama, The Presidential Campaign of 1968 -

Chester, Hodgeson and Page (best campaign book ever written)

29) The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder (excellent book
on the birth of a new computer)

30) House - Tracy Kidder

31) The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test - Tom Wolfe  (a great
account of the Sixties)

32) The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes (illuminating on the
birth and life of the British transport system, and the birth
of Australia as a nation)

33) The Wise Men - Issacson and Thomas (an excellent book
about Kennan, Acheson, Lovett, Bohlen, McCloy and Harriman)

34) The Glory and the Dream - William Manchester (covers the
history of US from 1932-1972 in a unique way)

35) Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter (two of the
                                             most complicated
36) Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter  books I've read) 

37) The Scarlet Mansion - Allan Eckert (a look at the serial
killer H.H. Hudson, AKA Herman Mudgett, of the last century)

38) Cadillac Desert - Marc Reiner (one of the best books on
American water policy ever written)

39) The Uses of Enchantment - Bruno Bettelheim (useful)

40) the Travis McGee books (21 altogether) - John D. McDonald (the
only series I've REALLY liked)

41) Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins (wierd!)

42) Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins (great)

43) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins (best novel on
hitchhiking I've read)

44) the Mars series (9 books) - Edgar Rice Burroughs

45) Thurber - Burton Bernstein (good bio)

46) The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber (wonderful humor!)

47) The Outline of History (usually in 2 volumes) - H. G. Wells

48) First and Last Men - Olaf Stapleton (mind-blowing!)

49) Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon  (good)

50) THe Army of the Potomac trilogy - Bruce Catton (a solid
account of the American Civil War)

    a) Mr. Lincoln's Army

    b) Glory Road

    c) A Stillness at Appomatax

51) The Complete Works of O. Henry

52) The Best of Roald Dahl (great short fiction!)

53) The Mabonogien (the Guest edition is the best I've seen)

54) Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory (the best of King
Arthur)

55) The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
(informative)

56) The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam

57) The Powers That Be - David Halberstam (a great book on
the media)

58) The Reckoning - David Halberstam (good look at US and
Japanese auto-making)

59) The Imperial Presidency - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

60) THe Cycles of American History - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
(well-written)

61) Naked Lunch - William Burroughs  (strange & intense)

62) Junkie - William Burroughs (bitterly sad, utterly
accurate)

63) The Nine Nations of North America - Joel Garreau
(innovative ideas, challenging)

64) Cyteen - C. J. Cherryh + (great SF!)

65) Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

66) two by Robert Graves (also good writing, pretty
historically accurate) 

a) I, Claudius

B) Claudius the God 

67) the Narnia books (7 books) - C.S. Lewis (good children's
allegory)

68) Damien - Herman Hesse (my favorite Hesse)

69) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (good view of the
South and a great novel)

70) Crime and Punishment - Fedor Dostoevsky  (hard)

71) Gilgamesh the King - Robert Silverburg

72) Tom O' Bedlam - Robert Silverburg (I quite liked this)

73) Earth - David Brin  (complex, good writing)

74) The Complete Sherlock Holmes - A. Conan Doyle  (great
fun!)

75) Kim - Rudyard Kipling  (a personal favorite)

76) A Fine and Private Place - Peter Beagle (odd!)

77) The Folk of the Air - Peter Beagle

78) The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek (classic anti-war
short stories book from the 1920s)        

79) The Merlin Trilogy - Mary Stewart 

    a) The Crystal Cave

    b) The Hollow Hills

    c) The Last Enchantment

80) Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel Cervantes (complex, but
I reccomend it for everyone)

81) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (some of the best
American fiction written this century)

82) The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon (classic
American fiction from the Sixties)

83) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (first French novel I ever
read, still regard it as seminal)

84) Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

85) A Midsummer's Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

86) Hamlet - William Shakespeare

87) The Tempest - William Shakespeare

88) King Lear - William Shakespeare

89) MacBeth - William Shakespeare

90) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

91) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway   

92) For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemningway 

93) Islands of the Stream - Ernest Hemingway (posthumous)

94) White Lotus - John Hersey (unsung, but an incredible
novel)

95) The Wall - John Hersey (intense, based on reality)

96) Mila 18 - Leon Uris (on the same theme as _The Wall,
equally intense)

97) Exodus - Leon Uris (opened my eyes to the Holocaust at a
very young age)

98) Trinity - Leon Uris (about northern Ireland)

99) Mitla Pass - Leon Uris (an interesting look at a writer's
life in Israel)

100) Shogun - James Clavell (good writing, read it the first
time in thirteen straight hours)

101) King Rat - James Clavell (chilling in "King Rat's"
depravity)

102) The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsythe (best book
about an assassin ever written)

103) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (very complex)

104) Fables and Fairy Tales - Leo Tolstoy

105) The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

106) Perestrokia - Mikhail Gorbachev (self-serving, a lot of
Leninist cant)

107) The August Coup, The Truth and the Lessons - Mikhail Gorbachev
(also self-serving, a bit of deception here and there - I
believe)

108) The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (a fun
novel, quite bizarre, I read it originally on my first
honeymoon in Aacapulco in 1969 in one sitting, and read it
yearly, incredibly funny in places)

109) Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov

110) V. - Thomas Pynchon (alligators in the sewers!)

111) Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (I recommend one read
it 3 times, maybe then it'll make sense - I've only read it
once)

112) The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

113) A Canticle for Liebowitz - William Miller (very good
post-nuclear war novel, considered an SF classic by many)

114) Little Big Man - Thomas Berger (funny, the movie is good
too)

115) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown (an excellent
book about the destruction of the Western Indians)

116) Chaos, Making a New Science - James Gleick 

117) A Nonconformist History of Our Times (5 volumes that I
know of, interesting slant) - I.F. Stone  

    a) The War Years, 1939-1945 

    b) The Truman Era, 1945-52

    c) The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951

    d) The Haunted Fifties, 1953-1963

    e) In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967

118) Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (great poetry!)

119) In Search of History, A Personal Adventure - Theodore White

120) The Making of the President, 1960 - Theodore White
(good, maybe the best in the series of these he wrote)

121) The Once and Future King - T. H. White (a different
Arthurian tale)

122) Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer (shows clearly the
"greyness" of the Nazi era by an insider)

123) Trillion Year Spree, The History of Science Fiction - Brian

Aldiss (best history of SF available)

124) The Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov (always liked
this)

125) Stieglitz, A Memoir/Biography - Sue D. Lowe
(informative, also good look at Georgia O' Keefe)

126) The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York -
 
Robert Caro (powerful biography, probably more than most
people want to know))

127) Ansel Adams, An Autobiography (excellent)

128) Cosmos - Carl Sagan  (quite informative)

129) Origins - Richard Leakey (useful)

130) America In Search of Itself, The Making of the President,

1956-80 - Theodore White (great overview)

131) Lucy, The Beginnings of Humankind - Johanson & Edey

132) Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Tomothy Ferris
(interesting)

133) American Caesar - William Manchester (good book on
Douglas MacArthur)

134) Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan  

135) The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan (informative)

136) Practicing History - Barbara Tuchman  (useful)

137) The March of Folly, from Troy to Vietnam - Barbara

Tuchman (a "popular historian's" overview of history)

138) The Weaker Vessel - Antonia Fraser (good history of
women)

139) The Holocaust - Martin Gilbert
                                     (both grim books
140) The Holocaust - Nora Levin       and powerful)

141) The Monte Cristo Cover-Up - Simmel (hilarious! a spy
story with recipes throughout)

142) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley  (seminal)

143) Animal Farm - George Orwell  (great)

144) 1984 - George Orwell (intense!)

145) The New Russians - Hedrick Smith (quite informative)

146) The Russians - Hedrick Smith  (useful)

147) Let History Judge (the 1989 edition) - Roy Medvedev +
(one look at Stalinism from a Marxist's point of view)

148) All Stalin's Men - Roy Medvedev  (intriguing, he
considers it one of his seminal books, or so he said in the 
summer of 1993)

149) A Question of Madness - Roy and Zhores Medvedev (good
account of the attempt to lock up Zhores in a mental
institution)

150) The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitzen (3
volumes) (intense, a must read)

151) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander 

Solzhenitsyn (Khrushchev permitted it to be circulated in the
USSR, much to the dismay of hardliners)

152) Rebuilding Russia - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (an odd look
at a way to rebuild Russia)

153) The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

154) August, 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

155) Now Playing at Canterbury - Vance Bourjaily (bizarre)

156) Giles Goat Boy - John Barth (real bizarre)

157) The Sotweed Factor - John Barth (strange)

158) Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty (very well written)

159) Moby Dick - Herman Melville  (must read!)

160) The Cold and the Dark, The World After Nuclear War - Ehrlich,

Sagan, Kennedy and Roberts (eerie and dark)

161) The Essential Ellison - Harlan Ellison (a must for any
fan of Ellison's work)

162) Night of the Cooters - Howard Waldrop + (very funny)

163) Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (quite good, spiritual)

164) Magister Ludi, or The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
(took me eight years and five tries to read this book - quite
complex)

165) Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

166) Ulysses - James Joyce (intense)

167) The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare

168) The Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (7 volumes as I
recall, I do not own this set, regretfully) 

169) Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

170) The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe

171) The Fires of Spring - James Michener (a look at life in
the poor house, not well known)

172) Hawaii - James Michener (a novel I always liked - who
can account for taste?)

173) Across the Wide Missouri - Bernard DeVoto

174) Ten Days That Shook the World - John Reed (good writing,
perhaps the best first hand account of the October Revolution
of 1917 written)

175) The Russian Revolution - Leon Trotsky   

176) THe Russian Revolution - Richard Pipes (excellent
writing, but flawed assumptions) 

177) Stalin - Adam Ulam (good)

178) Stalin, Triumph and Tragedy - Dimitri Volkogonov (fair)

179) Hitler, A Study in Tyranny - Alan Bullock

180) Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives - Alan Bullock (very
good)

181) A History of the Arab Peoples - Albert Hourani  

182) Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (powerful, and sad)

183) Babi Yar - Anatoly Kuznetsov (intense)

184) The Romanovs - W. Bruce Lincoln (informative)

185) All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (right on the
money, a great fictional account of Huey Long)

186) Red Star Over China - Edgar Snow (very good)

187) Serial Murders and Their Victims - Eric Hickey

188) The Serial Killers, a Study in the Psychology of Violence -

Wilson and Seaman

189) Serial Killers - Joel Norris

190) Hunting Humans, An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers -

Michael Newton

191) Hunting Humans, Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers - Elliott

Leyton 

192) Seven Days in May - Knebel and Bailey (intriguing, a
novel about an attempted military takeover of the US, a
scenario that has so far never occurred))

193) Going After Cacciato - Tim O' Brien (bizarre, well
written, a Vietnam novel)

194) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
(great!)

195) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vincente Blasco 

Ibanez

196) Toolmaker Koan - John McLoughlin (great modern SF)

197) David's Sling - Marc Stiegler (intriguing ideas)

198) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (first Vonnegut I read,
hard to avoid him after this)

199) The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes (very
well written, quite informative)

200) The Shadow of the Winter Palace - Edward Crankshaw 
(good history)

201) The World According to Garp - John Irving (almost too
much tragedy for one book)

202) Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
   
203) The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow  (a fictional look
at the ill-fated Rosenbergs)

204) Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (bizarre)

205) Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson

206) Weapons and Hope - Freman Dyson (a good look at the
difficulties surrounding nuclear weapons)

207) A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

208) Jedidiah Smith and the Opening of the West - Dale Morgan
(one of the few accounts ever about this unsung American hero
who was killed at age 33 by Commanches)

209) The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey (about
eco-terrorism)

210) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(quite wierd, very convoluted)

211) Democracy in America - Alexis d Toqueville (often in 2 
volumes - a must read for every American)

212) The Difference Engine - Gibson and Sterling A novel
about the first computer)

213) Good News From Outer Space - John Kessel *

214) A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara 

Tuchman ( a very solid look at the Black Plague years)

215) The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural

- Robert Darnton (strange, but informative)

216) Hidden History, Exploting Our Secret Past - Daniel Boorstein 

217) The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould 

218) Wonderful Life, The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History -

Stephen Jay Gould (very complex)

219) The Golden Bough - James Frazer (seminal)

220) Modern History, The World from the Twenties to the Eighties -

Paul Johnson (a conservative view)

221) A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
(a "liberal" or "radical left" view)

222) Passages - Gail Sheehy (useful  informative about the
stages of human life)

223) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain  (great!)

224) Blue Highways, A Journey Into America - William Least 

Heat Moon (finally finished while in Russia in 1993- good!)

225) Letters From the Earth - Mark Twain (creates doubts
about religion, and is wickedly funny)

226) Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson (a poetic
account of the Arthurian legend, too flowery for some)

227) Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser (well written)

228) Cromwell: Lord Protector - Antonia Fraser (best book on
Cromwell I've ever encountered)

229) The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron (quite
stirring, now controversial)

230) archy and mehitabel - Don Marquis (funny)

231) The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk

232) Time Wars, The Primary Conflict in Human History 

- Jeremy Rifkin  (informative)

233) Biosphere Politics - Jeremy Rifkin (useful)

234) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (classic, listened
to it twice through Christmas, 1994)

235) A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Mark 

Twain (hilarious)

236) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (very sad)

237) Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

238) Peter Pan - James Barrie (first read in 1955)

239) John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benet

240) The Matrix, Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems 

Worldwide  - John Quarterman  (useful, great reference,
although already obselete)

241) Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede - Brad Denton

242) Wrack and Roll - Brad Denton * (good alternate history)

243) The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien  (useful)

244) The Great Terror, A Reassessment - Robert Conquest (I
wish I had the _The Great Terror, but this is well done) 

245) 334 - Thomas Disch +

246) Oedipus Rex - Sophocles

247) Children of the Arbat - Anatoli Rybakov (striking)

248) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (strange)

249) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabakov

250) The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad - Harrison 

Salisbury  (the best look at the siege I've read)

251) The Life and Death of Lenin - Robert Payne (very flawed,
but interesting)

252) Rude Tales and Glorious - Nicholas Seare (Lancelot and
Guinivere as old folks)

253) Wilbur and Orville, A Biography of the Wright Brothers 

- Fred Howard (great biography)

254) Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All - Allan Gurganus

255) Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (short, well
written)

256) Beloved - Toni Morrison

257) Hurry Sundown - K.B. Gilden

258) Russian Spring - Norman Spinrad  (bizarre)

259) Little Heroes - Norman Spinrad   (quite strange, a dark
view)

260) Darkness At Noon - Arthur Koestler  (sad)

261) Black Earth, Red Star, A History of Soviet Security

Policy, 1917-1991 - R. Craig Nation

262) Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (classic)

263) The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

264) Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

265) Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (early 1950s post-nuke book)

266) Nightwork - Irwin Shaw (very funny)

266) Rich Man, Poor Man - Irwin Shaw

267) Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (some quite sad
stories, including the title story, from which the movie
"Charli" was made)

268) Revenge of the Lawn, Stories From 1962-70 - Richard 
 
Brautigan

269) Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan (several of us read
this aloud once in 1982)

270) Lord of the Flies - William Golding

271) The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCulloch (I liked this
"saga")

272) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (very strange, well written)

273) Warday - Whitley Streiber & James Kunetka

274) Nature's End - Whitley Streiber & James Kunetka

275) Failsafe - Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

276) The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris West (first look at
the inside of the Papacy I had as a student)

277) Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

278) True Grit - Charles Portis (good)

279) The Genius and the Goddess - Aldous Huxley

280) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

281) Truman - David McCulloch + (good writing)

282) The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - James Gunn
(useful and informative)

283) The Stand (revised) - Stephen King

284) The Sunlight Dialogues - John Gardner

285) Freedom - William Safire

286) East of Eden - John Steinback (I liked this dark novel)

287) The Red Pony - John Steinback (the first Steinback I
read, at about age 11 or 12)

288) The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck

289) The Bog People - P.V. Glob (very strange, but quite
interesting, got this for Christmas the year before my first
amrriage broke up - 1972)

290) Erewhon - Samuel Butler (an 1880s exploration of
potential utopia)

291) The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone

292) The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth

293) Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse

294) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (one of the
best accounts of Fifties mental institutions I've read)

295) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Hannah Green (Joanne

Greenberg) (intense, accurate)

296) The Brethern - Woodward & Armstrong (good look at the
inner workings of the Supreme Court)

297) My Life - Leon Trotsky

298) The Last Tsar - Edvard Radzinsky (bizarre, hard to
swallow)

299) Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917 -

Harrison Salisbury (very useful, well written)

300) Justice At Nuremburg - Robert Conot (a good look at the
Nuremburg trials)

301) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (intense,
well-written)

302) War for the Oaks - Emma Bull + (good modern fantasy)

303) The Good Earth - Pearl Buck

304) Native Tongue - Suzette Haden Elgin +

305) Tough Guys Don't Dance - Norman Mailer (strange)

306) Duncton's Wood - William Horwood (a look at life from a
mole's point of view)

307) Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams (a look at life from a
cat's point of view)

308) The Armageddon Rag - George R.R. Martin + (good rock and
roll novel)

309) Gorbachev, Heretic in the Kremlin - Dusko Doder and 

Louise Branson (informative)

310) Dreamsnake - Vonda McIntyre  (vintage SF)

311) The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun - Paul Gallico ( a
child's tale)

312) The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess

313) Hyperion - Dan Simmons (well written)

314) The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, Essays on Science Fiction 

- Samuel Delaney (hard going, but useful look at SF)

315) Dahlgren - Samuel Delaney (my favorite Delaney)

316) The Glittering Plain - William Morris

317) The Well at the World's End - William Morris

318) The Prince of Whales - R.L. Fisher

319) Bill, the Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison

320) The Stone and the Flute - Hans Bemmann

321) Pillar of the Sky - Cecelia Holland

322) Aton - Irving Greenfield  (intense)

323) Little, Big - John Crowley (quite odd)

324) Engines in the Night, Science Fiction in the Eighties 

- Barry Malzburg (good)

325) Grendel - John Gardner (a look at the Beowulf story from
the "monster's" point of view)

326) O' Keefe, The Life of an American Legend - Jeffrey
Hogrefe (very good!)

327) The Source - James Michener  (interesting)

328) The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer

329) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (loved it)

330) The Autobiography of Malcom X - told to Alex Haley (read
it in my twenties, quite moving)

331) Balkan Ghosts - Robert Kaplan (informative)

332) Memoirs - Andrei Sakharov (enlightening)

333) The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire - 

edit. Gwertzman & Kaufman 

334) The Collapse of Communism - edit. Gwertzman & Kaufman 

335) The Elephant and the Kangeroo - T. H. White

336) Anything for Billy - Larry McMurtry

337) Eugene Debs, The Making of an American Radical - Ray 

Ginger (a good look at the best American labor man)

338) A Sorrow in Our Heart, The Life of Tecumseh - Allan 

Eckert (very well written, history via "documents," one of
the best accounts of an Inian's life since the 1943 biography
of Crazy Horse)

339) a set of six, The Winning of America series - Allan Eckert
(good books about early American history)

     a) The Frontiersman

     b) The Conquerors 

     c) Gateway to Empire       
                                                                     
     d) The Wilderness 

     e) Wilderness Empire

     f) Twilight to Empire

340) The Making of the President, 1968 - Theodoe White

341) The Russia House - John LeCarre

342) Kingdom of the Wall - Robert Silverberg

343) The Cruel Peace: Everyday Life and the Cold War 

- Ralph Inglis

344) Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West (an excellent
account of Yugoslavia between the wars)

345) The War in Eastern Europe - John Reed  (very rare)

346) Russia Leaves the War - George Kennan
                                            (excellent!)
347) The Decision to Intervene - George Kennan 

348) Future Shock - Alvin Toffler (useful)

349) Power Shift - Alvin Toffler (useful, great bibliography)

350) The Ides of March - Thornton Wilder

351) Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

352) The General in His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

353) Division and Reunion: 1829-1889 - Woodrow Wilson

354) The Human Use of Human Beings, Cybernetics and 

Society - Norbert Weiner

355) Breach of Faith, The Fall of Richard Nixon - Theodore 

H. White (good account of the "last days" of RMN)

356) Being There - Jerzy Kosinski (funny)

357) The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski (tragic & bitterly sad)

358) Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag 

Blues - "Michael Douglas" (bizarre)

359) Babbit - Sinclair Lewis  (banal, but accurate)

360) Main Street - Sinclair Lewis

361) The Boys From Brazil - Ira Levin (bizarre book about
Hitler clones)

362) Too Far to Walk - John Hersey

363) Hiroshima - John Hersey (powerful eyewitness accounts of
the event)

364) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (sad)

365) Loose Change - Sara Davidson

366) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 

367) Selected Poems - John Ciardi

368) Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition 

- Ed Regis (interesting science writing)

369) The Classics Reclassified - Richard Armour (funny)

370) The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert (intriguing)

371) Grant, A Biography - William McFeely (solid)

372) Roosevelt and Hopkins - Robert Sherwood (very good)

373) A Thousand Days - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (slanted, but
well done)

374) Profiles of Courage - John F. Kennedy  (good)

375) Huey Long - T. Harry Williams (excellent)

376) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (extraordinary)

377) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor

378) Sharky's Machine - William Diehl

379) Boris Yeltsin, A Political Biography - Solovyov and 

Klepikova (very good)

380) The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler

381) Sandkings - George R.R. Martin (bizarre, good stories)

382) Syzygy - Frederick Pohl +

383) Michaelmas - Algis Budrys + (intriguing)

384) Augustus - John Buchan

385) Malevil - Robert Merle (another post-nuke book set in
France)

386) Killings - Calvin Trillin

387) Ivan the Terrible - Henri Troyat (only book on this man
I've seen)

388) Shudder Child - Warren Norwood (quite good, a different
kind of catastrophe book - post-earthquake that destroys the
structure of the old USA, set in Warren's beloved Texas, 70
years after the "Shudder," the king-hell of all earthquakes!)

389) The Birth of the People's Republic of Antartica - John 

Batchelor  (very bizarre)

390) Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, Further Reflections 

in Natural History - Stephen Jay Gould

391) The Zimmerman Telegram - Barbara Tuchman

392) The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet - John Batchelor

393) Assassination in America - Jim McKinley * (seminal on the
theme)

394) Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow  (quite strange but good)

395) Blackburn - Brad Denton (a novel from a serial killer's
point of view)

396) Waiting For Godot - Samuel Becket

397) The Tin Drum - Guntar Grass

398) Dinner at Deviant's Palace - Tim Powers + (very good SF)

399) Five Smooth Stones - Ann Fairbairn  (a novel about
bi-racial relationships, a schmaltzy book, a saga, but I
always liked it))

400) Other Americas - Norman Spinrad

401) Crow Killer - Thorp and Bunker (the "true" mountain
man)

402) Nova - Samuel Delaney

403) Babel-17 - Samuel Delaney (very good)

404) Rite of Passage - Alexi Panshin (intriguing)

405) Triton - Samuel Delaney  (complex)

406) Time Storm - Gordon Dickson (well done)

407) Arthur Rex - Thomas Berger (unusual Arthurian novel)

408) Neighbors - Thomas Berger

409) The Last Hero, Wild Bill Donovan - Anthony Brown (about
the head of the OSS, the precursor organization to the CIA)

410) Count Zero - William Gibson

411) Neuromancer - William Gibson  (the best of "cyberpunk")

412) The Marching Morons - C.M. Kornbluth

413) Around the Cragged Hill - George Kennan

414) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson
(I liked this series, but it is grim, I did not like the
three books in the series he wrote afterward that continue
this series and main character)

     a) Lord Foul's Bane

     b) The Illearth War

     c) The Power That Preserves

415) The Teachings of Don Juan, A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 

- Carlos Castenada

416) A Separate Reality - Carlos Castenada

417) Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

418) Island - Aldous Huxley

419) Rogue in Space - Frederic Brown

420) Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

421) Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt - Richard Brautigan

422) Trout Fishing In America - Richard Brautigan  (my first
reading of this author)

423) Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann

424) Soldiers Three - Rudyard Kipling

425) 1919 - John Dos Passos

426) Bridge Over the River Kwai - Pierre Boule

427) The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain

428) The Crucible of Time - John Brunner

429) Stand On Zanzibar - John Brunner (a Hugo winner,
excellent!)

430) The Shock Wave Rider - John Brunner (sited in KC; very,
very good)

431) Kent State - James Michener (the only account of this
event I've ever sen)

432) The Drifters - James Michener (an intriguing novel of
the Sixties)

433) Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright

434) The Complete Venus Equilateral - George Smith

435) Richard Nixon - Fawn Brodie (a very black look)

436) Dog Years - Guntar Grass

437) A Browser's Dictionary - John Ciardi

438) Earth in Upheaval - Immanuel Velikovsky
                                               (bizarre)
439) Worlds In Collision - Immanuel Velikovsky

440) Lord of the Trees & The Mad Goblin - Phillip Jose 

Farmer (rather sexually graphic)

441) Heart of the Comet - Benford and Brin

442) The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edit. Clement Wood
(useful)

443) The Fan Man - William Kotswinkle  (funny)

444) The Past Through Tomorrow - Robert Heinlein (his "future
history" series)

445) Time Enough For Love - Robert Heinlein  (what *I*
consider as his seminal work)

446) To Sail Beyond the Sunset - Robert Heinlein (his last
work of fiction)

447) The Long Winter - John Christopher  (bizarre)

448) No Blade of Grass - John Christopher

449) Does God Exist? - Hans Kung

450) Polymath - John Brunner

451) Coming From the Country - John McPhee

452) The Tontine - Thomas Costain ( a VERY unusual lottery)

453) The Black Rose - Thomas Costain

454) The Spider King - Lawrence Schoonover (first book on
Louis XI I ever read, good despite being "historical fiction")

455) The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
~
456) The Wanting of Levine - Michael Halberstam (a Jew
becomes President of the US)

457) King of the Gypsies - Peter Maas
 
458) Tom Horn - William Goldman

459) The Seventh Day - Hans Helmut Kirst

460) The Group - Mary McCarthy

461) Vandenberg - Oliver Lange

462) Kalki - Gore Vidal

463) She - H. Rider Haggard

464) The Harrad Experiment - Robert Rimmer (eye-opening about
!960s sexual relationship exploration)

465) The Rebellion of Yale Marratt - Robert Rimmer

466) Revolution 1776, A Short History of the United States 

- John Preston (an excellent account of the American
Revolution)

467) The Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Stories - Bret Harte

468) Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

469) Sinai Tapestry - Edward Whittemore

470) Advise and Consent - Allan Drury

471) The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux

472) Sacajawea - Anna Lee Waldo (long historical fiction, but
well done)

473) The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna

474) The Magus - John Fowles

475) The Lady of the Lake & Other Poems - Sir Walter Scott

476) Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (vaguely racy)

477) Traveler - Richard Adams (about Robert E. Lee's horse
from the horse's point of view)

478) The Art of Fiction - John Gardner (useful)

479) The Encyclopedia of Military History - Dupuy 

and Dupuy (quite a good reference book)

480) The Fall of the Dynasties - Edmond Taylor (informative,
it recounts the fall of the empires of the Ottomans,
Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs)

481) The Brothers Reuther - Victor Reuther (good)

482) An End to Silence - edit. Stephen Cohen

483) The Seven Sisters - Anthony Sampson (good luck at the
oil industry)

484) Backfire, American Culture and the Vietnam War - Loren

Baritz

485) The Prize - Daniel Yergin

486) Blind Ambition - John Dean

487) All The President's Men - Woodward and Bernstein (good)

488) The Lincoln Conspiracy - Balsiger and Sellier

489) The Jefferson Airplane - Ralph Gleason

490) Moscow Coup - Martin Sixsmith  (informing)

491) Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches - Marvin Harris

492) Cannibals and Kings - Marvin Harris

493) Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucenogenic

Drugs - Aaronson & Osmend  (a standard on this theme)

494) Writing On Both Sides of the Brain - Henriette 

Klauser  (very useful for a writer) 

495) A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and America 

in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan

496) Dispatches From The Barricades - John Simpson

497) I'm OK -- You're OK - Thomas Harris

498) Zen Buddhism - D.T. Suzuki

499) The Greening of America - Charles Reich

500) Russia and History's Turning Point - Alexander 

Kerensky

501) The End of the Soviet Union- Helene d'Encausse

502) Job, A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein

503) Preparing for the Twenty-First Century - Paul Kennedy

504) The Secret Ascension or Philip K. Dick is Dead, 

Alas - Michael Bishop  (wonderful) 

505) Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

506) Redwall - Brian Jacques (another story from animal's
point of view)

507) Glory Season - David Brin

508) Perils of Perestroika, Viewpoints from the Soviet 

Press, 1989-1991 - edit. Isaac Tarasulo 

509) Conquest Without War - Edit. Mager and Katel

510) Indians of the United States - Clark Wissler 

511) Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson

512) East of the Sun, The Epic Conquest and Tragic 

History of Siberia - Benson Bobrick

513) The Unwound Way - Adams and Brooks

514) Nothing Sacred - Elizabeth Scarborough *

515) Raft - Stephen Baxter (very bizarre)

516) Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 2nd

Edition - John D. Gaddis

517) Ethnicity in International Politics - Daniel P. 

     Moynihan

518) Scharansky, Hero of Our Time - Martin Gilbert

519) King Arthur and the Grail, The Arthurian Legends and

Their Meaning - Richard Cavendish

520) The Moscow Correspondents, Reporting on Russia from the

Revolution to Glasnost - Whitman Batlow

521) Judgement Day Archives - Andre Moscovit

522) The Second Russian Revolution - Angus Roxburgh

523) Russian-English Translator's Dictionary, A Guide to 

Scientific and Techical Usage, 3rd Edition - Mikhail 

Zimmerman and Claudia Vedeneeva (perhaps the best book I 
brought back from Russia in 1993)

524) Old Vladivistok - trans. Alexander Melnikov (gave me an
idea of the vastness of Russia, and before it, the Soviet
Union, and the difficulties of the old "empire" to rule such
a huge land)

525) The History of the Haymarket Affair - Henry David

526) The Universal Myths - Alexander Eliot

527) A Harvest of World Folk Tales - edit. Milton Rugoff

528) Creative Brooding - Robert Raines (thought provoking)

529) Russia and the West - Jerry Hough

530) The Russian Syndrome, One Thousand Years of Political 

Murder - Helene D' Encausse (well done)

531) Conversations With Stalin - Milovan Djilas (quite
interesting)

532) Master of Middle Earth, The Fiction of J. R.R. Tolkien 

- Paul Kocher

533) The Cabala - Thornton Wilder

534) Utopia in Power, The History of the Soviet Union from
1917 to the Present - Heller & Nekrich (excellent!)

535) Moscow Spring - William and Jane Taubman

536) Bakunin on Anarchy - edit. Sam Dolguff

537) American Psycho - Brett E. Ellis (sick, an odd view)

538) Breaking with Moscow - Arkady Shevchenko

539) The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty - Iroshnikov, 

Protsai, and Shelayev (a Russian look at the last years of

the Romanovs)

540) THe Future: A Guide to Information Sources - edit. 

World Future Society  (useful info)

541) A Question of Character, A Life Of John F. Kennedy -

Thomas Reeves

542) ...the Heavens and the Earth, A Political History of 

the Space Age - Walter McDougall

543) Mikhail Bulgakov and His Times - compiled by 

Vyacheslav Vozdvizhensky

544) The Falcon and the Snowman - Robert Lindsey

545) Essays in Contemporary History, 1946-1990 -

Vladimir Alexandrov (a Russian look at history)

546) Kingdoms of Europe - Gene Gurney

547) The Will to Doubt - Bertrand Russell (very strange)

548) Revolution from Above, Where is the Soviet Union 

Going? - Tariq Ali
                                            
549) Wired - Bob Woodward               
                                        
550) Robert Capa, A Biography - Richard Whelan (an excellent
account of a great photographer's life)

551) Russia 2010, and What it Means for the World - Yergin

and Gustafson (one of the best projections and speculative
books about Russia's future I've read; a project of the
Cambridge Energy Reasearch Associates, it is eminently
readable, and worth reading, although too optimistic to my
way of thinking)

552) Broken Bonds, the Disintegration of Yugoslavia - Lenard

J. Cohen (a very recent book, it is quite excellent)

553) Beria, Stalin's First Lieutenant - Amy Knight (the most
recent biography of this monstrous man)

554) Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia ( a very odd book, but
an unusual look at sexuality, feminism and the interactions
of women and men)

555) Steel Beach - John Varley

556) The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - L. Frank Baum
(written in 1902 and recently reprinted, a delightful tale
about Santa Claus' early life, and the development of all the
traditions of Christmas)

557) Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and

Unconventional English - Eric Partridge (a great reference
book)

558) The Wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser (the newest
book on this theme, and as well written as Ladfy Fraser's
books usually are)

559) Russia and the Old Regime - Richard Pipes (originally
done in 1974, this second edition is a useful look at the
last days of Tsardom)

560) Post-Communist Studies & Political Science, Methodology

and Empirical Theory in Sovietology - edit. Fleron and

Hoffman (a scholarly look at the field of Sovietology after
the "fall of Communism")

561) Gorbachev - Zhores Medvedev
                                  (two interesting bios)
562) Andropov - Zhores Medvedev 

563) Genius, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James

Gleick (a wonderful account of this very talented man's life,
written by the author of _Chaos)

564) Mothers and Daughters - Elena Bonner (an
autobiographical book by Sakharov's widow about her mother,
grandmother and herself)

565) The Truth About Chernobyl - Grigori Medvedev (no
relative of the twins Zhores and Roy, this account of the
disaster by the former deputy deputy chief engineer may be
one of the best accounts of the tragedy so far written)

566) The Mammoth Book of Killer Women - edited by Richard

Jones (an account of famous women murderers, pretty bizarre)

567) The Best American Essays, 1993 - editor Joseph Epstein (
a great set of essays, a good look at current styles of essay
writing)

568) What It Takes - Richard Ben Cramer (probably the
definitive account of the 1988 US Presidential campaign)

569) The Birth of the Modern, World Society 1815-1830 - Paul

Johnson (a conservative's look at the immediate
post-Napoleonic period)

570) The Complete Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (an EXCELLENT
book!)

571) Clockers - Richard Price (a chilling novel that is an
all too accurate look at the drug business)

572) Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope - James

Billington (an account of the 1991 putsch by the Librarian of
Congress)

573) The Icon and the Axe - James Billington (considered one
of the standards on Russian history, extremely well written)

574) Dinotopia - James Gurney (a delightful fantasy about
dinosaurs and humans on a remote island, the artwork is
incredible!)

575) The American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition (one of
the best new dictionaries to come down the pike in a long
time) 

576) Journey Into the Whirlwind - Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg
(an extraordinary account of Stalin's Terror) 

577) Sometines a Great Notion - Ken Kesey (a greatly
underated novel)

578) Sailor's Song - Ken Kesey (his newest, the guy ages
well)

579) Molotov Remembers, Inside Kremlin Politics,

Conversations with Felix Chuev (one of the survovors of the
Stalin era, in the apparatus from Lenin to Khrushchev, an
enlightening look at the range of Soviet history from an
insider's point of view)

580) The Legacy of Chernobyl - Zhores Medvedev (a scientist's
look at the risks of nuclear power)

581) The System, An Insider's Life in Soviet Politics -

Georgi Arbatov (the head of the US-Canada Institute, one of
Gorbachev's "inside men," an intriguing account of the later
Soviet period) 

582) Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (another damning
novel of the gulags!)

583) The Lost Revolutionary, A Biography of John Reed -

O'Conner and Walker (a bio of the man who wrote _Ten Days
That Shook the World, one of two Americans buried in the
Kremlin Wall - I saw his marker in the wall this past summer)

584) The Fall of a Titan - Igor Gouzenko (a powerful,
stirring, haunting novel)

585) Russia 1917, The February Revolution - George Katkov (a
history of the lesser known of the two 1917 revolutions of
Russia, written by a Russian)

586) War and Anti-War, Survival At the Dawn of the 21st

Century - Alvin and Heidi Toffler (provocative)

587) Playboys and Killjoys, An Essay on the Theory and

Practice of Comedy - Harry Levin (exploring a sub-theme of
life always of fascination to me)
 
588) Double Star - Robert Heinlein ( a switch, rather artful
even if dated)

589) Khrushchev's Russia - Edward Crankshaw ( another look at
the period by a solid historian)

590) A Documentary History of Communism in Russia, From Lenin

to Gorbachev - Robert V. Daniels (an excellent account, told
by the documents of the times)

591) Goodnight! - Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) (he was
tried for writing this book and smuggling it to the West)

592) The First Socialist Society, A History of the Soviet

Union From Within - Geoffrey Hosking 

593) A Study of History - Arnold J. Toynbee (a truly seminal
book for any would-be historian)

594) The Opium War, 1840-1842 - Peter Ward Fay (a
well-written account of an obscure event)

595) Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling (vintage "cyberpunk")

596) Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski (gave me an
idea of what the "range" of "creative writing" could be)

597) The Flamingo's Smile, Reflections in Natural History -

Stephen Jay Gould

598) K.C., A History of Kansas City, Missouri - Brown and

Dorsett (one of the best histories of my adopted home of 26
years written that I'm aware of)

599) The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (I had forgotten
this book, and my 11 year old read it recently, and reminded
me of how much it had affected me as a teenager) 

600) The Fifties - David Halberstam (the best account of my
coming-of-age-years I've read)

601) The History of Middle Earth series - edited by
Christopher Tolkien (some folks find this series very
pedantic, but I have found it quite illuminating, intriguing,
a look at a writers entire body of work - NOTE: The last
volume in the series I know about won't be published until
1995)

a) The Book of Lost Tales, Volume 1

b) The Book of Lost Tales, Volume 2

c) The Lays of Beleriand

d) The Shaping of Middle Earth

e) The Lost Road

f) The Return of the Shadow

g) The Treason of Isengard

h) The War of the Ring

i) Sauron Defeated

j) Morgoth's Ring   (I have them up to here)

k) The War of the Jewels (projected)

602) The Summer of '64 - David Halberstam

603) Russia Speaks, An Oral History from the Revolution to

the Present - Richard Lourie

604) The Dune Encyclopedia - edit. by Willis McNelly

605) The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 - Hugh Seton-Watson

606) Sex, Art and American Culture - Camile Paglia

607) American Assassins, The Darker Side of Politics - James

W. Clarke (an excellent study of this phenomenon in America)

608) War and the Rise of the State - Bruce Porter

609) Winston Churchill - Henry Pelling

610) two by Kissinger, his memoirs

a) White House Years

b) Years of Upheaval (a bit self-serving, but an interesting
look into a premier foreign policy mind that appears to have
been passed by in time)

611) Buffalo Bill, Last of the Great Scouts - Helen Cody

Wetmore (an as-told to, Wetmore was Cody's sister, this is a
reproduction of an 1899 edition)1

612) Brave Companions, Portraits in History - David

McCullough

613) See How They Ran, The Changing Role of the Presidential

Candidate - Gil Troy

614) The Politics Presidents Make - Stephen Skowronek

615) Life After Nuclear War - Arthur Katz (chilling,
hopefully a book never coming true, but intriguing too)

616) Rainer Maria Rilke - Patricia Brodsky *

617) A History of Russia - George Vernadsky

618) A Collection of Essays - George Orwell

619) The Thinking Game, A Guide to Study - Eugene Meehan

620) Primal Fear - William Diehl (very strange story of a
multiple personality, or was he?)

621) The Next Century - David Halberstam

622) Russia at the Barricades, Eyewitness Accounts of the

August 1991 Coup - Bonnell, Cooper & Freidin

623) The Russian Anarchists - Paul Avrich

624) The Bolsheviks - Adam Ulam

625) The Communists - Adam Ulam

626) The Russian Revolutionary Intelligensia - Philip Pomper

627) Lenin - Dmitri Volkogonov

628) Mr. Bliss - J.R.R. Tolkien

629) Caliban's Hour - Tad Williams

630) From the Periphery: Poems and Essays - H. Palmer Hall *

631) The Living Presidency - Emmett John Hughes

632) Disclosure - Michael Crichton

633) The Daisy Chain - James O' Shea (about the "looting" of
a Texas S & L) 

634) Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks - edit. Ronald Curran

635) Anne Frank's Tales From the House Behind - Anne Frank

636) The Great Fear - David Caute (about the anti-Communist
"purges"of the 1950s)

637) The Nuclear Age - Tim O' Brien

638) Jaguar - Loup Durand 

639) Trying Conclusions, New and Selected Poems 1961-1991 -

Howard Nemerov +

640) Heavy Time - C.J. Cherryh

641) Searoad - Ursula LeGuin

642) Private Pleasures - Lawrence Sanders

643) Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins

644) Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy

645) Sarajevo Survival Guide - FAMA

646) The Tomorrow File - Lawrence Sanders

647) Capital Crimes - Lawrence Sanders

648) The Case of Lucy Bending - Lawrence Sanders

649) The Passion of Molly T. - Lawrence Sanders

650) The Pleasures of Helen - Lawrence Sanders

651) The Norton Book of Science Fiction - edit by LeGuin and

Attebery

652) The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers

653) Gypsy Folk Tales - Diane Tong

654) Grumbles From the Grave - Robert Heinlein

655) Pointed Home: A Cross-Country Essay - W. Scott Olsen

656) Just This Side of Fargo - W. Scott Olsen +

657) Gearing of Love - John Oughton +

658) Wool Highways and Other Poems - David Ray  *

659) Mata Hari's Lost Words - John Oughton

660) The Jaipur Sketchbook - Judy Ray *

661) Okla Hannali - R.A. Lafferty

662) Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again - John Gilgun

663) Pigeons in the Chandeliers - Judy Ray

664) From the Inside Out - John Gilgun +

665) From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman

666) A History of Russia - Bernard Pares

667) A History of Russia - Nicholas Riasanovsky

668) The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and

Thought - Nicholas Riasanovsky

669) The Disintegration of the Monolith - Boris Kagarlitsky

670) Empire of the Czar, A Journey Through Eternal Russia -

the Marquis de Custine

671) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

672) Selected Poems - Osip Mandelstam

673) Selected Poems - Boris Pasternak

674) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World - Gregory S. Paul

675) The Dance of Anger - Harriet Lerner

676) The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

- Thomas Martin

677) Breakout Into Space - George Elias

678) A World Lit Only By Fire - William Manchester

679) Spencerville - Nelson DeMille

680) Buffalo Girls - Larry McMurtry

681) Sarah Canary - Karen Fowler

682) Christmas Magic - edit. David Hartwell

683) The Beats - edit. Seymour Krim

684) The Golden Room - Irving Wallace (a fictional account of
the infamous Everleigh sisters and their brothel in Chicago)

685) Shadows Fall - Simon Green

686) Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg

687) The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis

688) A Creed for the Third Millenium - Colleen McCullough

689) The Father Christmas Letters - J.R.R. Tolkien

690) ten by Laura Ingalls Wilder -

a) Little House in the Big woods

b) Little House on the Prairie

c) Farmer Boy

d) On the Banks of Plum Creek

e) By the Shores of Silver Lake

f) The Long winter

g) Little Town on the Prairie

h) These Happy Golden Years

i) The First Four Years

j) Little House in the Ozarks, The Rediscovered Writings 

691) The Portable Russian Reader - selected by Bernard

Guerney

692) The Conquest of a Continent - W. Bruce Lincoln

693) The Millenium Whole Earth Catalog - edit. Howard

Rheingold

694) Daemon in Lithuania - Henri Guigonnat

695) The Hole in the Flag - Andrei Codrescu

696) The Empire of the Tsars - Elisabeth Heresch

697) The Oxford Book of Science Fiction - edit. Tom Shippey

698) The Dinosaur Heresies - Robert Bakker

699) The Velvet Prison, Artists Under State Socialism -

Miklos Haraszti

700) The Once and Future Goddess - Elinor Gadon

701) The Postman - David Brin (thought this book was on the
list, I think it one of the best new SF, and Brin a great new
writer,  in a while)

702) Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

703) An Encyclopedia of Fairies - Katherine Briggs

704) The Penkovsky Papers - Oleg Penkovsky

705) Tolkien and the Critics - Isaacs and Zimbardo

706) A History of the Soviet Union - Georg von Rauch

707) The Dream That Failed - Walter Laqueur

708) A History of Russia - Jesse Clarkson

709) A Short History of Russia - D.H. Sumner

710) Armand Hammer - Steve Weinberg

711) Toward A Better World - Mikhail Gorbachev

712) Watership Down - Richard Adams (another I thought
already on the list, a delightful look at life from the point
of view of rabbits)

713) Maia - Richard Adams (his longest novel, even longer
than _Shardik)

714) The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett

715) The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

716) The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

717) Freedom - William Safire (a long novel about the Civil
War)

718) Burr - Gore Vidal

719) Something of Value - Robert Ruark (a novel about the
Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya)

720) The Indian Wars - Paul Wellman

721) The Iron Mistress - Paul Wellman (a novel about the
Bowie knife, and James Bowie)

722) Ancient Evenings - Norman Mailer

723) Good As Gold - Joseph Heller

724) Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

725) Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut

726) Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut

727) The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsythe

728) The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

729) Close Encounters With the Deity - Michael Bishop

730) The Way of the Pilgrim - Gordon Dickson

731) The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert

732) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula LeGuin

733) Always Coming Home - Ursula LeGuin (perhaps her best
novel)

734) Endangered Species - Gene Wolfe

735) Friday - Robert Heinlein

736) Gateway - Frederick Pohl

737) Catherine the Great - John Alexander

738) The Kremlin Letter - Noel Behn (one of my favorite spy
novels)

739) Ancient of Days - Michael Bishop

740) Tau Zero - Poul Anderson

741) Macroscope - Piers Anthony (one of his earlist, *I*
think he went downhill from this book)

742) The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth - Roger

Zelazny

743) This Immortal - Roger Zelazny

744) Emma Goldman- John Chalberg

745) Tamerlane - Harold Lamb (one of the few books about this
legendary conquerer, albeit fiction)

746) The Viking Process - Norman Hartley (an excellent
thriller)

747) Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

748) The JFK Assassination, the Facts and the Theories - Carl

Oglesby

749) Nixon Agonistes - Garry Wills

750) The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac

751) The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

752) The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O' Neill

753) Ford, The Men and the Machines - Robert Lacey

754) The Kingdom - Robert Lacey (about the origins and rise
of Saudi Arabia)

755) Peace - Gene Wolfe

756) The Lost Legends of Earth - A.A. Attanasio

757) The Stranger - Albert Camus

758) The Fall - Albert Camus

759) The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

760) The Informer - Liam O' Flaherty

761) Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry

762) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

763) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

764) The Order of the Death's Head - Heinz Hohne (a grim, but
in-depth, history of Hitler's SS)

765) After the Good War - Peter Breggin (an odd in-the-future
novel from Britain)

766) Interface - Stephen Bury

767) White Fang - Jack London

768) Gracie - George Burns

769) Silverlock - John Myers Myers

770) Ringworld - Larry Niven

771) Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (an ancestress
of mine, and recently written of in David McCullough's _Brave
Companions - the book is a classic)

772) Marriage Lines - Ogden Nash

773) Victim Prime - Robert Sheckley

774) The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara (a novel about the
Civil War and the Indian wars)

775) CIA Diary - Philip Agee

776) Her - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

777) Howl - Allen Ginsberg

778) Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

779) The Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper

780) The Sea Wolf - Jack London

781) Present at the Creation - Dean Acheson

782) Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller - Judith Thurman

783) My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. - Coretta Scott

King

784) Citizen Hearst - W.A. Swanberg

785) Sybil - Flora Schreiber (strange)

786) The Puzzle Palace - James Banford (an excellent book
about the National Security Agency)

787) The Comforts of Madness - Paul Sayer

788) And Chaos Died - Joanna Russ

789) Queen Victoria - Cecil Woodham-Smith

790) The Status Civilization & Notions Unlimited - Robert

Sheckley

791) The Cornelius Chronicles - Michael Moorcock

792) The Trial of the Catonsville Nine - Daniel Berrigan

793) Prince Ombra - Roderick MacLeish

794) The Last Coin - James Blaylock

795) Starshine - Theodore Sturgeon

796) Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich

797) A Little Revenge, Ben Franklin and His Son - Willard

Randall

798) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (the only book of Rand's I
like - I disagree with most of her politics)

799) Libra - Don Delillo

800) White Noise - Don Delillo

801) Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy - Henry Kissinger

802) Remembering America - Richard Goodwin

803) Theophilus North - Thornton Wilder

804) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

805) A Man Called Intrepid - William Stevenson

806) Journey to the East - Herman Hesse

807) Panic on Wall Street - Robert Sobel

808) The Maltese Falcon - Dashiel Hammett

809) The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

810) The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (the very first SF
I encountered, read aloud by my sixth grade teacher)

811) My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber (the best!)

812) The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments - James

Thurber

813) Fables For Our Times - James Thurber

814) Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze - James Thurber

815) The Owl in the Attic - James Thurber

816) The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester

817) Master of Middle Earth, the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien -

Paul Kocher

818) Tolkien: A Biography - Humphrey Carpenter

819) A Guide to Middle Earth - Robert Foster

820) Of Time, Space and Oher Things - Issac Asimov

821) A Punishment for Peace - Philip Berrigan

822) Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

823) The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

824) The Population Bomb - Paul Ehrlich

825) Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones -

Samuel Delaney

826) The Duke of Deception - Geoffrey Wolf

827) Twentieth Century Russia - Donald Treadgold (the author
just died in December, 1994, but this book went three or four
editions)

828) A Howard Nemerov Reader - Howard Nemerov (my copy was
autographed by him less than a month before he died)

829) Diane Arbus Magazine Work - Diane Arbus (Nemerov's
sister, a suicide, and an excellent photographer)

830) Twenty Letters to A Friend - Svetlana Alliluyeva
(Stalin's daughter, this was written after she fled to the
West)

831) The Man That Changed the World - Gail Sheehy (about
Gorbachev)

832) I Hope - Riasa Gorbachev

833) Russia and the West - George Kennan

834) Perestroika and Soviet National Security - Michael

MccGwire

835) A New Russia? - Harrison Salisbury

836) Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroika - edit. by Hewett

and Winston

837) Political Essays - Roy Medvedev

838) The Glasnost Reader - ed. Joanthan Eisen

839) The Soviet Union 2000 - Walter Laqueur

840) A Window on Russia - Edmund Wilson

841) The Sixties - Edmund Wilson

842) Starkweather - William Allen (about the Charlie
Starkweather murder spree of 1959)

843) Glitz - Elmore Leonard

844) Maximum Bob - Elmore Leonard

845) Stick - Elmore Leonard

846) The Green Hills of Earth - Robert Heinlein

847) The Child Buyer - John Hersey

848) Forty Thousand in Gehenna - C.J. Cherryh

849) Shardik - Richard Adams

850) Radix - A.A. Attanasio

851) Across the Sea of Suns - Gregory Benford

852) Hell's Angels - Hunter Thompson

853) The Great Shark Hunt, Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1 - Hunter

Thompson

854) The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo - Oscar Zeta Acosta

855) The Autobiography of Ben Franklin - Ben Franklin

856) Tortilla Flat - John Steinback

857) The Making of a Quagmire - David Halberstam (about
Vietnam)

858) Blood and Money - Thomas Thompson

859) Jack in the Box - William Kotswinkle

860) The Leopard's Tooth - William Kotswinkle

861) Seducton in Berlin - William Kotswinkle (not as
substantial as the others, but wonderfully illustrated)

862) And the Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi (a sad tale
about a true murder case, powerfully written)

863) Helter, Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi (about the Manson
case)

864) The Family - Ed Sanders (also about Manson)

865) O' Jerusalem - Collins and Lapierre (about Israel coming
to independence)

866) Freedom at Midnight - Collins and Lapierre (about
India's coming to independence)

867) The Venerable Bede - Richard Condon

868) Arigato - Richard Condon

869) The Conspiracy - John Hersey (a novel about Nero)

870) The Algiers Motel Incident - John Hersey (non-fiction
about an incident during the Detroit riots of 1967)

871) My Petition for More Space - John Hersey

872) The Making of a Counter-Culture - Theodore Roszak

873) Windhaven - Martin and Tuttle

874) Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

875) Fatal Vision - Joe McGinniss (about the Jeffrey McDonald
murder case)

876) Naked Ape - Desmond Morris

877) Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies - Frederick Hacker

878) The Teamsters - Steven Brill

879) Crazy Horse - Mari Sandoz (done in 1943, but well-done)

880) Louis XIV - John Wolf

881) Power - Bertrand Russell

882) The American Writer and the Great Depression - Harvey

Swados

883) Senator Joe McCarthy - Richard Rovere

884) The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti - Felix Frankfurter

885) The Color Purple - Alice Walker

886) In Search of Our Mother's Gardens - Alice Walker

887) William Carlos Williams - Paul Mariani

888) Daniel Boone - John Bakeless

889) Son of the Morning Star - Evan Connell (an odd,
well-written book about Custer)

890) The Trial - Franz Kafka

891) History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

892) The Fate of the Earth - Jonathan Schnell

893) Megatrends 2000 - Naisbitt & Aburdene

894) Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book - Edwin Betts

895) Utopian Thought in the Western World - Manuel & Manuel

896) America's Political Dynasties - Stephen Hess

897) The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

898) The Ottoman Centuries - Lord Kinross

899) Lone Star, A History of Texas and the Texans - T.R.

Fehrenbach

900) A History of Russia, the Soviet Union and Beyond, 4th

edition - MacKenzie & Curran

901) To Bear Any Burden - Al Santoli (Vietnam book)

902) Vietnam - ed. Marvin Gettleman

903) A Rumor of War - Phil Caputo

904) The Battle of Dienbienphu - Jules Roy

905) Decent Interval - Frank Snepp (a CIA look at Vietnam)

906) The Ten Thousand Day War, Vietnam 1945-1975- Michael

Maclear

907) Ataturk - Lord Kinross

908) World Polity: Conflict and War - James Speer

909) The Engine of the Night - Barry Malzberg (another look
at SF by one of its more talented writers)

910) The Rockefellers, An American Dynasty - Collier &

Horowitz

911) The Lottery, Adventures of the Demon Lover - Shirley

Jackson

912) There Are Alligators in the Sewer & Other American

Credos - Dickson and Goulden 

913) Tom's Town - William Reddig (a life of "Boss" Tom
Pendrgast of Kansas City)

914) Images of Man - C. Wright Mills

915) The Emergence of Man - John Pfeiffer

916) The Damon Runyon Omnibus - Damon Runyon

917) The Phenomenon of Man - Tellhard de Chardin

918) Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver

919) A Mencken Chrestomathy - H.L. Mencken

920) Today's Isms (9th edit.) - Ebenstem & Fogelman

921) The Open Mind - J. Robert Oppenheimer

922) Edge of the Taos Desert - Mabel Dodge Luhan

923) Morrow: His Life and Times - A.M. Sperber

924) Dorothy Day, A Biography - William Miller

925) Love and Will - Rollo May

926) The Origins of Race - Carleton Coon

927) The Ascent of Man - J. Brownowski

928) The Panda's Thumb - Stephen Jay Gould

929) Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth

Symphony - Lewis Thomas

930) Working - Studs Terkel

931) FDR, 1882-1945 - Joseph Alsop

932) Martian Time Slip - Philip Dick

933) African Genesis - Robert Ardrey

934) In the Days of the Dinosaurs - Roy Chapman Andrews

935) All About Dinosaurs - Roy Chapman Andrews

936) The Mormon Experience - Arrington & Battor

937) 1947, When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball - Red Barber
(the year that I was born, an interesting way to look at that
year)

938) Bryan - Louis Koenig

939) Robert M. LaFollette - David Thelen

940) Walter Lippmann and the American Century - Ronald Steel

941) Only One Year - Svetlana Alliluyeva

942) Summerhill - A.S. Neill

943) Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuscinski

944) The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan

945) Abraham Lincoln - Benjamin Thomas

946) The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

947) They Call Us Dead Men - Daniel Berrigan

948) Tolkien's World - Randell Helms

949) Tolkien and the Silmarils - Randall Helms

950) The Royal Road to Romance - Richard Halliburton (the
greatest travel writer of earlier this century)

951) The Great Mother - Erich Neumann

952) Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin (a *great* book
about natural childbirth)

953) FDR - Ted Morgan

954) Revolutions, a Comparative Study - ed. Lawrence Kaplan

955) Fire in the Streets, America in the 1960s - Milton

Viorst

956) The Wobblies - Patrick Renshaw (about the International
Workers of the World union)

957) Patience and Fortitude: Fiorella LaGuardia - William

Manners

958) Spycatcher - Peter Wright

959) Boss - Mike Royko (about "Boss" Daley)

960) The Rainbow Cadenza - J. Neil Schulman (libertarian SF)

961) Backfire: American Culture and the Vietnam War - Loren

Baritz

962) The Berrigans - ed. William Casey

963) Bulfinch's Mythology

964) Rascals in Paradise - Michener & Day (about various
characters in the South Seas)

965) Mythology - Edith Hamilton

966) The Dain Curse - Dashiel Hammett

967) The Beet Queen - Louise Erdrich

968) The Grand Failure - Zbigniew Brzezinski

969) A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold

(NOTE: the last 30 titles deal exclusively with murder)

971) The Green River Killer - Smith and Guillen

972) "Son," A Psychpath and His Victims - Jack Olsen

973) Thou Shall Not Kill - Mary Ryzuk

974) Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders - Sullivan &

Minkin

975) The Michigan Murders - Edward Keyes

976) The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule (about Ted Bundy)

977) Serial Murder - ed. Ann Crockett

978) Zodiac - Robert Greysmith

979) Serial Murderers and Their Victims - Eric Hickey

980) Give A Boy a Gun - Jack Olsen

981) The Mormon Murders - Norteh and Smith

982) Nutcracker - Shana Alexander

983) Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, The Story of the

Yorkshire Ripper - Gordon Burn

984) Bitter Blood - Jerry Bledsoe

985) Murderers Among Us - Michaud & Aynesworth

986) Two of a Kind, The Hillside Stranglers - Darcy O' Brien

987) A Gathering of Saints - Robert Lindsey

988) The Shoemaker - Flora Schreiber

989) No Deadly Drug - John D. MacDonald

990) Echoes in the Darkness - Joseph Wambaugh

991) The Misbegotten Son - Jack Olsen

992) The Boston Strangler - Gerold Frank

993) Small Sacrifices - Ann Rule

994) Monkey on a Stick; Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas

- Hubner and Guson

995) Buried Secrets - Edward Humes

996) The I-5 Killer - Ann Rule

997) Final Harvest - Andrew Malcolm

998) Thrill Killers, True Portrayals of America's Most

Vicious Murderers - Clifford Linedecker

999) Poisoned Blood - Philip Ginsburg

1000) A Rose for Her Grave & Other True Cases - Ann Rule

Afterword - there aren't enough women writers here, though
more than there were, (and each updated book-list adds to the
number of women writers I have on the list) plus there's too
much emphasis in this list on murder (which I've "studied"
for thirty years) and Sovietology. There also isn't enough
poetry, or drama, though this version of the list adds some
poetry, at least. I keep at it, though I may stop at "1200
Books." VMS