The 1990s represent a very dry spell in my reading history. For one reason or another (busy with work, family, Internet addiction, etc.), I really did very little reading during the entire decade. Well, except for doll-collector magazines which I devoured in alarming numbers.
So I've devised a little ongoing personal reading challenge to read some of those books published in the 1990s, that I neglected at the time. This is my list of books that look interesting. I'm sure I'll be adding to it over time. I'm sure I won't be reading all of them in this lifetime, but at least it gives me something to aim at.
A Bottle in the Smoke. A.N. Wilson (1990)
A Dubious Legacy. Mary Wesley (1992)
A Fine Place for Death. Ann Granger (1994)
A Man In Full. Tom Wolfe (1998)
A Peaceful Retirement. "Miss Read" (1996)
A Sensible Life. Mary Wesley (1990)
A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley (1991)
A Touch of Mortality. Ann Granger (1996)
A Watch in the Night. A.N. Wilson (1996)
A Word After Dying. Ann Granger (1996)
Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood (1996)
All the Names. Jose Saramago (1997)
American Pastoral. Philip Roth (1997)
An Imaginative Experience. Mary Wesley (1996)
Angels & Insects. A.S. Byatt (1992) [read March 2009 - see review]
At Home in Mitford. Jan Karon (1994)
Babel Tower. A.S. Byatt (1996)
Beneath These Stones. Ann Granger (1999)
Blindness. Jose Saramago (1995)
Blood Work. Michael Connelly (1998)
Brightness Falls. Jay McInerney (1992)
Buffalo Girls. Larry McMurtry (1990)
Call the Dead Again. Ann Granger (1998)
Candle for a Corpse. Ann Granger (1995)
Cat on the Scent. Rita Mae Brown (1999)
Changes at Fairacre. "Miss Read" (1991)
Circle of Friends. Maeve Binchy (1990)
City of the Mind. Penelope Lively (1991)
Cleopatra's Sister. Penelope Lively (1993)
Colony, Ann Rivers Siddons (1992)
Comanche Moon. Larry McMurtry (1997)
Curriculum Vitae. Muriel Spark (1992)
Daughter of Fortune. Isabel Allende (1999)
Daughters of Albion. A.N. Wilson (1991)
Daughters of Cain. Colin Dexter (1994)
Dead Man's Walk. Larry McMurtry (1995)
Death In Disguise. Caroline Graham (1993)
Death Is Now My Neighbour. Colin Dexter (1996)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Rebecca Wells (1996)
Dreaming of the Bones. Deborah Crombie (1997)
English Music. Peter Ackroyd (1992)
Faithful Unto Death. Caroline Graham (1998)
Farewell to Fairacre. "Miss Read" (1993)
Fortune's Rocks. Anita Shreve (1999)
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence. Nick Bantock (1991)
Harlot's Ghost. Norman Mailer (1991)
Hearing Voices. A.N. Wilson (1995)
Heat Wave. Penelope Lively (1996)
Here on Earth. Alice Hoffman (1997)
Hill Towns. Ann Rivers Siddons (1993)
Hocus Pocus. Kurt Vonnegut (1990)
I Cannot Get You Close Enough: Three Novellas. Ellen Gilchrist (1990)
Little Altars Everywhere. Rebecca Wells (1992)
Martin Dressler. Steven Millhauser (1996)
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse. Lee Smith (1990)
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders. Jo Dereske (1994)
Murder Among Us. Ann Granger (1992)
Murder on the Prowl. Rita Mae Brown (1998)
Murder, She Meowed. Rita Mae Brown (1996)
New Year's Eve. Lisa Grunwald (1997) [read September 2009 - see review]
New York Days. Willie Morris (1993)
Outer Banks. Ann Rivers Siddons (1991)
Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha. Roddy Doyle (1993)
Part of the Furniture. Mary Wesley (1997)
Pay Dirt. Rita Mae Brown (1995)
Relic. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (1995)
Reliquary. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (1997)
Rest in Pieces. Rita Mae Brown (1992) [read January 2009]
Rose Cottage. Mary Stewart (1997)
Say It with Poison. Ann Granger (1991)
Seventh Heaven. Alice Hoffman (1990)
She Walks These Hills. Sharyn McCrumb (1994)
Slowness. Milan Kundera (1993)
Smilla's Sense of Snow. Peter Hoeg (1992)
Spiderweb. Penelope Lively (1999)
Stormy Petrel. Mary Stewart (1991)
Streets of Laredo. Larry McMurtry (1993)
Symposium. Muriel Spark (1991)
The Black Book. Orhan Pamuk (1990)
The Blue Flower. Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)
The Burden of Proof. Scott Turow (1990)
The Evening Star. Larry McMurtry (1992)
The Gate of Angels. Penelope Fitzgerald (1990)
The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes. Herbert Lieberman (1998)
The Giver. Lois Lowry (1993)
The Golden Child. Penelope Fitzgerald (1999)
The Green Knight. Iris Murdoch (1993)
The Hours. Michael Cunningham (1999)
The Inn at Lake Devine. Elinor Lipman (1998)
The Jewel That Was Ours. Colin Dexter (1991)
The Music Lesson. Katharine Weber (1999)
The Pilot's Wife. Anita Shreve (1998)
The Players Come Again. Amanda Cross (1990)
The Prestige. Christopher Priest (1995)
The Quilter's Apprentice. Jennifer Chiaverini (1999)
The Red Tent. Anita Diamant (1997)
The Remorseful Day. Colin Dexter (1999)
The Robber Bride. Margaret Atwood (1993)
The Sculptress. Minette Walters (1993)
The Secret History. Donna Tartt (1992)
The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields (1993)
The Virgin Suicides. Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
The Volcano Lover. Susan Sontag (1992)
The Way Through the Woods. Colin Dexter (1992) [read April 2009 - See Review]
The Weight of Water. Anita Shreve (1997)
The Witching Hour. Anne Rice (1990)
Thunderhead. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (1998)
Timeline. Michael Crichton (1999)
To Dance with the White Dog. Terry Kay (1990) [read May 2009 - see review]
Turtle Moon. Alice Hoffman (1992)
We Were the Mulvaneys. Joyce Carol Oates (1996)
Whispers in the Graveyard. Theresa Breslin (1994)
Wise Children. Angela Carter (1991)
WLT: A Radio Romance. Garrison Keillor (1991)
Wonder Boys. Michael Chabon (1995)
