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Our Reading Selections of the 20th century - 1991 - 1999 Year 2000 +
12/07/99
Mystery
Cruel and Unusual

Review:Cruel and Unusual
Patricia Cornwell
Author's Site
Barbara
Michael
9/16/99
Science Fiction
The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury
Alex
Barbara
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8/3/99
Science Fiction
Restaurant at the end of the Universe

Douglas Adams
Louis
Alex
 
6/24/99
Science Fiction
The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula Le Guin
Linda
Louis
 
5/20/99
Science Fiction
The Physiognomy
Jeffery Ford
Mike
Linda
 
4/22/99
Science Fiction
Idoru

William Gibson
John Rice
Mike
 
3/99
US Civil War
Charles Frazier
Alex
John Rice
 
1/99
US Civil War
General Lee's Civil War
Bevin Alexander
Louis
Alex
 
10/29/98
US Civil War
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought the US Civil War
James McPherson
Linda
Louis
 
8/27/98
US Civil War
Killer Angels
Mike Shaara
Mike
John
7/23/98
US Civil War
Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
John
Mike
 
6/11/98
General
Quarantine (1997 Booker Award)
Jim Crace
Linda
John
 
4/23/98
Southern Writers
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Louis
Linda
 
3/26/98
Southern Writers
Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley
Beannie
Louis
 
2/12/98
Southern Writers
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
Linda
Beannie
 
11/21/97
Southern Writers
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
Fred Chappell
John R
Pauline at Linda's
 
9/18/97
General
Accordion Crimes
E. Annie Proulx
Mike
John
 
8/14/97
General
Stones From the River
Ursula Hegi
Linda
Mike
 
7/2/97
Occult
The Power of Silence
Carlos Castañeda
Louis
Linda
 
5/14/97
Occult
Ghost Singer
Anna Lee Walters
Beannie
Louis
 
4/10/97
Occult
Under the Lake
Stuart Woods
John Rice
Beannie
 
3/6/97
Hispanic Issues
Law of Love
Laura Esquivel (author of 'Like Water for Chocolate')
Michael
John R
 
1/23/97
Hispanic Issues
Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Linda
Michael
 
12/15/96
Hispanic Issues
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Louis
Linda's Sunday Brunch
 
11/14/96
Hispanic Issues
Paula
Isabel Allende
Beannie
Louis
 
10/2/96
Hispanic Issues
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rita
Beannie
 
9/5/96
Hispanic Writers
No Happy Ending
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
John R
Rita @ Beannie
 
8/8/96
Irish Writers
The Butcher Boy (1992 Booker award)
Patrick McCabe
Linda
John Rice
 
6/6/96
Irish Writers
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
Louis
Linda's
 
5/2/96
Irish Writers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Beannie
Louis
3/28/96
Irish Writers
House of Splendid Isolation
Edna O'Brien
John R
Beannie
 
2/28/96
General
What the Deaf-Mute Heard
G.D. Gearino
Cris
John R
 
2/1/96
General
Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
Linda
Cris @Louis
 
12/28/95
General
The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan
Louis
Linda
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11/2/95
General
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Wade Davis
John R
Beannie
 
9/21/95
General
Madeleine's Ghost
Robert Girardi
Cris
John's
 
8/18/95
Black Issues
The Content of Our Character
Shelby Steele
Linda
Cris @Louis
 
7/20/95
General
Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong
Louis
Linda
 
6/8/95
Black Issues
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
Derrick Bell
Beannie
Louis
 
5/04/95
Black Issues
Monster: The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur, AKA Monster Kody Scott
Rita
Rita @Beannie's
 
04/06/95
Black Issues
African Women
Mark Mathabane
John R
John R @Beannie's
 
2/20/95
Japan
Blueprint for a New Japan
Ichiro Ozawa
Linda
Linda @Beannie's
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12/20/94
Japan
Made in Japan
Akio Morita
Beannie
Linda
 
11/20/94
Japan
Shinju
Laura Joh Rowland
Louis
Louis
 
10/26/94
Japan
The Japanese Today
Edwin Reischauer
Linda R
John @Beannie's
 
09/28/94
Far East
Imperial Woman
Pearl S. Buck
John R
Beannie
 
08/17/94
Japan
The Decay of the Angel
Yukio Mishima
Rita Keeton
Beannie @Louis
 
07/13/94
Japan
Kitchen
Banana Yashimoto
Beannie
John R @Rita's
 
06/09/94
Japan
Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
Louis
Beannie @Rita's
 
05/11/94
Literature
All The Pretty Horses
Cormac
McCarthy
John G
Louis
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04/06/94
Literature
The English Patient (1992 Booker co-winner with Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth)
Michael Ondaatje
Linda
GIORGINA'S
 
03/09/94
Romantic Literature
When Heaven And Earth Changed Places
Le Li Hayslip
Rita
Linda
 
02/09/94
Romantic Literature
Bastard Out Of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
Beannie
Rita
 
01/06/94
Romantic Literature
My Antonía
Willa Cather
RVC
Louis
 
11/29/93
General
Travels
Michael Crichton
John
Beannie
 
10/27/93
General
Our Man In Havana
Graham Greene
Louis
John @Mich
 
09/26/93
Mythology
A World Lit Only By Fire
William Manchester
Rita
RVC@Sausalito
 
07/26/93
Mythology
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Beannie
John G @Michelangelo's
 
06/30/93
Mythology
Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene
John
Louis
 
05/26/93
Mythology
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Edith Hamilton
Beannie
John
 
03/07/93
Romantic Literature
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Louis
Beannie
 
01/27/93
Romantic Literature
Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Richard
Richard
 
11/12/92
Literature
Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
Beannie
Louis
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09/26/92
Literature
Daisy Fay and The Miracle Man
Fannie Flagg
Louis
Beannie
 
06/24/92
Literature
The Bostonians
Henry James
Rita
Rita
 
05/24/92
Literature
Howard's End
EM Forster
Richard
Rita
 
04/29/92
Latin Writers
Limits Of Friendship:
Us/Mexico
Jorge Castaneda and Robert Pastor
Beannie
Richard
 
03/25/92
Latin Writers
Central America Since Independence
Leslie Bethell
Louis
Beannie
Worst Book Selection ?
02/26/92
Latin Writers
In Trouble Again
Redmond O'Hanlon
Rita Keeton
Louis
 
01/22/92
Latin Writers
The General In His Labyrinth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Richard Van C
Rita
 
11/15/91
Latin Writers
Conversations With Montezuma
Richard Reavis
Al
Beannie
 
10/15/91
Latin Writers
Eye of the Heart
Various
Beannie
AL
 
09/01/91
Middle East
From Beirut To Jerusalem
Thomas
Friedman
Louis
Beannie
 
08/01/91
Middle East
Lebanon: Death Of A Nation
Sandra Mackey
Richard
Louis
 
06/15/91
Middle East
Respected Sir Naguib Mahfouz
Rita
Richard