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Books read since Jan 96

• Following the Sun by John Hanson Mitchell
• Saving Faith by David Baldacci
• *Off to the Side by Jim Harrison
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
• *The Raw and The Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison
• The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
• Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
• Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
• *The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
• *House by Tracy Kidder
• *Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer by Anatoli Boukreev
• *The Story of the Jews by Stan Mack
• Picturing Will by Ann Beattie
• *The Emigrants by WG Sebald
• Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody
• Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
• *Sundog by Jim Harrison (1/02)
• Mountain Time by Ivan Doig (12/01)
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon (10/01)
• Irons in the Fire, John McPhee
• The New New Thing, Michael Lewis (8/18/01)
• *The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
• Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe
• The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
• It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins
• Night Train, Martin Amis (very good noir mystery)
• An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul (read about 1/2)
• *A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
• Virtual Light, William Gibson
• Night Flight, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• *The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
• *Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
• *The Road Home, the sequel to Dalva, Jim Harrison (5/17/2000)
• Hopper's Places, Gail Levin (2/29/2000)
• The Ransom of Russian Art, John McPhee (1/25/2000)
• Sleeping Where I Fall, Peter Coyote (1/16/2000)
• Murder at the National Gallery, Margaret Truman (1/9/2000)
• Angels & Insects, A.S. Byatt (12/24/1999)
• A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
• Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
• Desert Notes, River Notes, Barry Lopez
• A Tribe Apart, Patricia Hersch
• Living the Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing (8/25/99)
• Old Fences, New Neighbors, Peter R. Decker (7/31/1999)
• *Dalva, Jim Harrison (7/17/1999)
• My Old Man and the Sea, David Hays and Daniel Hays (6/12/1999)
• Damascus Gate, Robert Stone
• The Genessee Diary, Henri J. M. Nouwen
• With Chatwin, Portrait of a Writer, Susannah Clapp
• Wired Magazine, Ok, it's not a book but I read it from cover to cover
• Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
• Time Exposure, The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson, W.H. Jackson
• *Possession, A.S. Byatt
• *Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
• Miles from Nowhere, Barbara Savage
• *Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• *Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• Bucking the Sun, Ivan Doig
• Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters, Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields
• *The Drawings of Paul Cadmus, Guy Davenport
• Pig Earth, John Berger
• Durer, John Berger
• Following The Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese Culture, John Elder
• The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher, Bruno Ernst
• Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
• Kowloon Tong, Paul Theroux
• A Place in Space, Gary Snyder
• The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux
• The Hunter Gracchus, Guy Davenport
• Consider This Senora, Harriet Doerr
• *Ride With Me Mariah Montana, Ivan Doig
• *Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
• The Celestine Prophecy, Redfield
• Ireland: a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle, David Wilson
• Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Tim Cahill
• *Longitude, Deva Sobel
• *Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig
• *A Year, Brian Eno
• *Stones for Ibarra, Harriet Doerr
• Thank You and OK, David Chadwick
• My Journey to Lhasa, Alice David-Neel
• The Media Lab, Stewart Brand
• Journals, Keith Haring
• My Other Life, Paul Theroux
• Being Digital, Nicholas Negreponte
• Depths of Glory, Irving Stone
• Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone
• This Hallowed Ground, Bruce Catton
• The Birth of the Beat Generation; Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960, Steven Watson
• I Sing the Body Electronic; A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier, Fred Moody
• The Zen of Seeing, Frederick Franck
• *English Creek, Ivan Doig