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Log of changes to the book page.

5/10/01
Added Waiting by Ha Jin
Added Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Added The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Added Speaking With the Angel ed. by Nick Hornby
3/10/01
Added In Search of an Impotent Man by Gaby Hauptmann
Added Tesseract by Alex Garland
Added Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Added Five Days In London, May 1940 by John Lukacs
Added Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier
Added Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
11/15/00
Added The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth
Added Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Added The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Added Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Added Dispatches by Michael Herr
Added Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
Added In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Added Life Sentence by J.D. Smith
Added Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Added Blind Man's Bluff by Susan Sontag
Added Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
8/27/00
Added About a Boy, Fever Pitch, and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Added Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
Added Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Added Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Added Cinderella Story by Bill Murray
Added Harry Potter and the Golet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Added The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
6/9/00
Added Paris in the Fifties by Stanley Karnow
Added The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Added Backspin by Harlan Coben
1/15/00
Added Making History by Stephen Fry
Added If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now by Sandra Tsing Loh
Added Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien
Added The KGB Bar Reader ed. by Ken Foster
Read The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
11/25/99
Added two more Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling
Added Blue at the Mizzen to the Patrick O'Brian list.
Added On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Added So, You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
10/3/99
Added Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Added Espedair Street by Iain Banks
9/18/99
Added Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Added Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin
Added Missing Links by Rick Reilly
Added Whit by Iain BanksUK
Added Notes froma Big Country by Bill Bryson
Added South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
5/30/99
Added The Napoleon of Crime by Ben MacIntyre
Added The Set-Up by Paul Erdman
Added My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness
Added Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Added Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
Finished The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
3/14/99
Added Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Added Cuba and the Night by Pico Iyer
2/4/99
Added Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
1/16/99
Added The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff.
Added Time and Again by Jack Finney.
Added Perfume by Patrick Susskind.
Added The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
Added Use of Weapons and Excession by Iain Banks.
11/30/98
Added 84, Charing Cross Road, and Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff.
11/19/98
Added By Force of Arms, The Maddest Idea, and The Continental Risque by James L. Nelson.
11/15/98
Added Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
11/14/98
Changed title.awk to add small cover images to main page.
10/19/98
Almost back from sabbatical
Added Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.
Added The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.
Added Fermata by Nicholson Baker.
Added A Song of Stone by Iain Banks.
Added Canal Dreams by Iain Banks.
Added A Good Walk Spoiled by John Feinstein.
Added Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.
Added Chasing Cézanne by Peter Mayle.
Added San Francisco Stories ed. by John Miller.
Added Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer.
Added This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Added Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson.
Finished Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse.
8/2/98
Added Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks.
Finished Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse.
7/17/98
Added Crow Road by Iain Banks.
Added Celtic Lore by Ward Rutherford.
5/23/98
Reread For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
4/14/98
Hey! All the Kipling stuff disappeared!
Added To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway.
4/3/98
Finished 1st pass of Amazon links and covers. Only got to it because Aimee was late picking me up.
3/25/98
Began adding Amazon links and covers. I have a way to go yet, even with scripts doing most of the work.
3/22/98
Added Player of Games by Iain Banks.
3/8/98
Added Connections by James Burke.
2/16/98
Added Complicity by Iain Banks.
2/14/98
Added Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly.
1/20/98
Added Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg.
Added Barrel Fever by David Sedaris.
10/27/97
Added Coyote vs Acme by Ian Frazier.
Added Monkey Brain Sushi ed. by Alfred Birnbaum.
10/5/97
Began experiment with Frame Version.
10/1/97
Added Depth Takes a Holiday by Sandra Tsing Loh.
9/27/97
Replaced make mechanism, began using tagged/content for all entries, fully automated page generation.
9/14/97
Added Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl.
Added Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami.
8/24/97
Added Longitude by Dava Sobel.
8/22/97
Added The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.
Added Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
7/22/97
Added My Name is Aram by William Saroyan.
Added The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
7/19/97
Added Without a Hero by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Added Clinging to the Wreckage and Murderers and Other Friends by John Mortimer
Added Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
6/29/97
Added The Eight by Katherine Neville.
Added Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King.
6/7/97
Added Spotted Dick, S'il Vous Plait by Tom Higgins.
Added The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul Erdman.
4/20/97
Added The Panic of '89 by Paul Erdman.
4/7/97
Added to sections by Mark Twain, Trevanian, and Sun Tzu.
3/7/97
Added How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill.
Added Napoleon by Felix Markham.
Added Anything Considered by Peter Mayle.
2/27/97
Added The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe.
11/22/96
Added Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl.
11/10/96
Added The Lady and the Monk by Pico Iyer.
Finished The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian.
10/20/96
Added The Liars' Club by Mary Karr.
Added Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto.
Added The Narrowing Stream and Like Men Betrayed by John Mortimer
8/18/96
Added section for Colin Dexter

Added A Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin, Cao
8/7/96
Added N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto.

Added authors page.
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Current In-pile:

Setting records for size, *sigh*
Iain Banks(Nothing to get alarmed about here; Banks' books are not generally available in the US so when I recently had an opportunity to grab a bunch of them, I did.)
  • The Bridge
  • Walking on Glass
  • The State of the Art

  • Margaret Drabble
  • A Natural Curiosity

  • Paul Erdman
  • The Silver Bears
  • Zero Coupon
  • The Palace

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Beautiful and Damned

  • Margaret George
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra

  • Pico Iyer
  • Tropical Classical

  • Stanley Karnow
  • Paris in the Fifties


  • Garrison Keillor
  • Lake Wobegon Days

  • Mei Ng
  • Eating Chinese Food Naked


  • Salman Rushdie
  • The Moor's Last Sigh

  • Anatoli Rybakov
  • Children of the Arbat

  • P.G.Wodehouse
  • Piccadilly Jim

  • Ch'Eng-En Wu, transl. by Arthur Waley
  • Monkey

  • Banana Yoshimoto
  • Amrita


  • Started and put them down (!):

    The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
    Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble