^{A  Decade of Fine Literature
(plus a lot of crap by Stephen King, Michael Crichton, & Patricia Cornwell)}

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses; The Moon by Whalelight v Antoniou, Laura (Ed). Looking for Mr. Preston: A Celebration of the Writer’s Life v Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion v Arenas, Reinaldo. Before Night Falls v Atwood, Margaret. Cat’s Eye; Good Bones and Small Murders; Surfacing; Wilderness Tipsv Baker, James Robert. Tim and Pete v Baldacci, David. The Simple Truth v Barnes, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot v Barrus, Tim. Genocide: The Anthology v Bartlett, Neil. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall v Beattie, Ann. Picturing Will; Where You’ll Find Me; Falling in Place v Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well v Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil v Bergman, David (Ed.) Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction; Men on Men 7: Best New Gay Fiction v Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones v Boyd, Blanche McCrary. The Revolution of Little Girls v Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Budding Prospects; Descent of Man; If the River Was Whiskey v Bram, Christopher. Father of Frankenstein; Gossip; In Memory of Angel Clare v Brite, Poppy Z. Drawing Bloodv Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac v Brown, Michael David. Under Heat v Browning, Frank. Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today v Bryant, Dorothy. The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You v Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange v Byatt, A.S. Possession v Canin, Ethan. The Emperor of Air v Capote, Truman. Answered Prayers; In Cold Blood v Carney, William. The Real Thing v Carr, Caleb. The Alienist; The Angel of Darkness v Carter, Angela. Wise Children v Carter, Peter. Borderlands v Case, John. The First Horseman; The Genesis Code v Chatwin, Bruce. Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989; In Patagonia; The Songlines; What Am I Doing Here? v Chin, Justin. Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks v Churchill, Caryl. Cloud 9 v Clavell, James. Tai-Pan v Cole, Lester. Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole v Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness v Conroy, Pat. The Prince of Tides v Cornwell, Patricia D. Body of Evidence; Cause of Death; Cruel and Unusual; Unnatural Exposure; Point of Origin;The Body Farm v Coupland, Doug. Generation X v Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One v Crichton, Michael. A Case of Need; Air Frame; Congo; Jurassic Park; Rising Sun; Sphere v Cunningham, Michael. Flesh and Blood; The Hours v Dahl, Roald. Switch Bitch v Davies, Robertson. Fifth Business; Rebel Angels; The Lyre of Orpheus; The Manticore; The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks; What’s Bred in the Bone; World of Wonders v Davis, Christopher. The Boys in the Bars v Dostoevesky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov v Ebensten, Hanns. Volleyball with the Cuna Indians and Other Gay Travel Adventures v Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine; Tracks v Farrell, Suzanne. Holding Onto the Air v Feibelman, Peter. Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman v Feinberg, David. Eighty-Sixed; Queer and Loathing; Spontaneous Combustion v Ferro, Robert. The Family of Max Desir v Finnegan, Brian (Ed.) Quare Fellas: New Irish Gay Writing v Fisher, M.F.K. How to Cook a Wolf v Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe v Forster, E. M. Howard’s End; A Passage to India v Fritscher, Jack. Some Dance to Remember v Gaitskill, Mary. Bad Behavior v Gale, Patrick. The Aerodynamics of Pork v Gambone, Phil. The Language We Use Up Here v Garner, James Finn. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories v Gilgun, John. Music I Never Dreamed Of; Your Buddy Misses Youv Ginsberg, Allen. Howl v Gonick, Jean. Mostly True Confessions: Love in the 80’s v Gooch, Brad. City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; ScaryKisses v Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments v Grimsley, Jim. Dream Boy v Gurganis, Alan. White People; Plays Well With Others v Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars v Hall, Richard. Fidelities v Hardy, James Earl. B-Boy Blues v Hellenga, Robert. The Sixteen Pleasures v Hoag, Tammi. Dark Paradise v Holleran, Andrew. The Beauty of Men v Hollinghurst, Alan. The Swimming-Pool Library v hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racismv Horwitz, Tony. One for the road: Hitchhiking through the Australian Outbackv Howatch, Susan. Glittering Images v Irving, John. A Widow for One Year; The Cider House Rulesv Ivins, Molly. Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? v Johanson, Donald & Edey, Maitland. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankindv Junger, Hans. The Perfect Storm v Kaplan, Alice. French Lessons v Kenan, Randall. Let the Dead Bury Their Dead v Kent, David. Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden v King, Stephen. Bag of Bones; Desperation; Dolores Claiborne; Four Past Midnight; Misery; Needful Things; Nightmares and Dreamscapes; The Green Mile; The Tommyknockers v Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman Warrior v Kinnell, Galway. When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone v Kirkwood, James. Good Times/Bad Times v Klein, Adam. The Medicine Burns v Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air v Kwitney, Jonathan. Acceptable Risks v Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone v Land, Jon. The Omicron Legend v Leavitt, David. A Place I’ve Never Been; Arkansas: Three Novellas; Equal Affections; The Page Turnerv Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird v Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved v Lodge, David. Small World v Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun v McCarthy, Mary. The Stones of Florence v McMillan, Terry. Waiting to Exhale v Meade, Marion. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is this? v Merlis, Mark. American Studies; An Arrow’s Flight v Minot, Susan. Monkeys v Monette, Paul. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story v Moore, Susanah. The Whiteness of Bones v Mordden, Ethan (Ed.) Waves: New Gay Male Fiction; v Mordden, Ethan. One Last Waltz; Some Men Are Lookers v Morris, Jan. Pleasures of a Tangled Lifev Morrison, Toni & Lacour, Claudia Brodsky (Eds.). Birth of a Nation’hood: Gaze, Script, & Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case v Morrison, Toni. Beloved; Song of Solomon v Mosley, Walter. A Red Death; Devil in A Blue Dress v Nussbaum, Bruce. Good Intentions v Offutt, Chris. The Same River Twice vOlson, Tillie. Tell Me A Riddle v Paglia, Camille. Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays v Paley, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute vPicano, Felice. Like People in History: A Gay American Epic; Men Who Loved Mev Plath, Sylvia. Ariel v Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln. Mount Dragon v Preston, Douglas J. Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History v Preston, John. Franny: The Queen of Provincetown v Preston, Richard. The Cobra Event v Rafael, Lev. Winter Eyes v Rice, Anne. Exit to Eden; The Vampire Lestat v Rich, Adrienne. This Native Land, Your Life v Rovin, Jeff. Vespers v Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye v Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude; Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing; Plant Dreaming Deep; The Education of Harriet Hatfield v Scanlan, Dick. Does Freddie Dance v Scholder, Amy & Silverberg, Irv (Eds.) High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings v Signorile, Michelangelo. Queer in America v Siman, Ken. Pizzaface v Simon, Kate. Italy: The Places in Between v Smiley, Jane. The Age of Griefv Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor; AIDS and its Metaphors v Spanbauer, Tom. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon v Stambolian, George (Ed.) Men on Men 3: An Anthology of New Gay Writing v Stendahl. The Red and the Black v Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash v Sterne, Lawrence. Tristram Shandy v Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead v Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner v Swift, Graham. Shuttlecock; Waterland v Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels v Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club v Tart, Donna. The Secret History v Thomas, D. M. The White Hotel v Thomsen, Moritz. The Farm on the River of Emeralds v Tyler, Anne. Breathing Lessons; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant;The Accidental Tourist v Vachss, Andrew. Choice of Evilv Vaughn, Stephanie. Sweet Talk v von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn v Weir, John. The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket v White, Edmund. Genet: A Biography v Whitmore, George. Nebraska v Williams, Tennessee. Not About Nightingales v Wolfe, Tom. Bonfire of the Vanities; A Man in Full v Woodward, Bob & Scott Armstrong. The Brethren: Inside American’s Supreme Court

**This is what I was doing when I wasn’t returning your phone calls.