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Books read since Jan 96

• Lust for Life by Irving Stone
• Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
• *Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal
• *Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings (Also see the Metropolitan Museum of Art site)
• Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection
• Graphic Storytelling: The Definitive Guide to Composing a Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
• Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
• The Life and Times of R. Crumb edited by Monte Beauchamp
• The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
• Over the Hills—A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle by David Lamb
• *Saturday by Ian McEwan
• *Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Will Eisner's Shop Talk by Will Eisner
• Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
• *The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F. A. Worsley
• Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder
• The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, John Muir
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Walkin’ the Dog by Walter Mosley
• The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
• McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 Edited By by Chris Ware
• Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide By Eric Meyer
• The Recumbent Bicycle by Gunnar Fehlau
• *Whistler's Venice by Alastair Grieve
• Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by James McDonough
• True North by Jim Harrison
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer - Written before the end of Apartheid, Gordimer imagined what life would be like for a white family fleeing the conflict in the city. The family took refuge in the village of their former domestic employee, July. Well-written, although the lack of quotation marks was a bit annoying.
• Running to the Mountain; A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
• Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
• Atonement by Ian MacEwan
• The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
• How to Shit in the Woods by Kathleen Meyer
• N.C. Wyeth, A Biography by David Michaelis
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• 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