What Erica Read in 2002.
In order, more or less.
| Title | Author | Month read. |
| The Professor and the Madman | Simon Winchester | January |
| Heartfire (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 5) | Orson Scott Card | January |
| The Andromeda Strain | Michael Chrichton | January |
| Airframe | Michael Chrichton | January |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card | January (cruise) |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | January (cruise) |
| Man and Boy | Tony Parsons | January (cruise) |
| Metroland | Julian Barnes | January (cruise) |
| Into Love and Out Again | Elinor Lipman | Feb |
| Carry On, Jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | March 17 |
| The Gryphon | Nick Bantock | |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | April |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | April |
| The Bell Jar : A Novel | Sylvia Plath | April |
| Two Tales: The Man Who Whould Be King and Without Benefit Of Clergy | Rudyard Kipling | |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | |
| The Minority Report (short story) | Philip K Dick | |
| The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Change the World | Richard Watson | This book may have actually changed my life. |
| Kings Meat and Fat Farm (Short Stories) | Orson Scott Card | |
| Sarah | Orson Scott Card | |
| A Natural History of the Senses | Diane Ackerman | |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy | August |
| Home Cooking : A Writer in the Kitchen | L Colwin | August |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman | read this (and heard her speak!) in August. I think Anne Fadiman is simply wonderful. I also read and LOVED her Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader which I highly recommend to anyone vaguely like me. |
| How to Be Good | Nick Hornby | August |
| The Red Pony (and Junius Maltby) | John Steinbeck | August |
| The Stars, Like Dust | Isaac Asimov | August |
| What Men Live by | Tolstoy | August |
| Laughable Loves | Milan Kundera | August |
| Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word | Randall Kennedy | August. This is a terrific book. |
| The Way Men Act: A Novel | Elinor Lipman | September |
| Ogilvy on Advertising | David Ogilvy | September |
| An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde | September |
| Wyrms | Orson Scott Card | |
| Dupont Circle: A Novel | Paul Kafka-Gibbons | I met Paul at an audition for a dance company that I didn't get into =( He was a great guy, and I really liked the book. I had hoped that I'd hate it =) |
| Paradise Park: A Novel | Allegra Goodman | I'm in a dance troupe with Allegra Goodman's husband. Isn't that fascinating? =) |
| White Noise | Don Delillo | Oct. Good, yes. Funny? I'm not sure I'd use the word funny... |
| The Long Run Solution | Joe Henderson | Awesomely inspirational book about running. |
| Stupid White Men | Michael Moore | And Other Sorry Excuses for the Nation. December |
| Tarzan of the Apes: Tarzan No. 1 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | December |
| Ceremony | Robert Parker | read for the second time on December 27. |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | December |
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