Ellen Isaacs: Ellen's books read in 1998

Ellen's book list
This is a list of all the books I read in 1998, along with my ratings. (On the left are links to the rest of the books I've read since 1988, when I first started keeping track.) The "Buy" links take you to that book on Amazon (the paperback version) and the author links take you the Amazon page that lists all of that author's books. My -4 to +4 ratings scale is explained below the list.

Books Read in 1998

No. Author Title Finished Rating
(-4 to +4)

17 Bryan Peterson Understanding Exposure [Buy] 12/2 +3

16 Bryan Peterson Learning to See Creatively [Buy] 11/30 +3

15 Sharon Kay Penman Cruel as the Grave [Buy] 11/14 +2

14 Sharon Kay Penman The Queen's Man: A Medieval Mystery [Buy] 10/23 +2

13 Sally Helgesen Everyday Revolutionaries: Working Women & the Transformation of American Life [Buy] Sept +3

12 Louis Rosenfeld,
Peter Morville Information Architecture for the World Wide Web [Buy] Sept +2

11 Edward Rutherfurd London (1/2) [Buy] June 0

10 Larry McMurtry Dead Man's Walk [Buy] 6/10 +1

9 Alfred Lansing Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage [Buy] 5/10 +1

8 Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Buy] 4/9 +2

7 Margaret Atwood Alias Grace [Buy] 3/13 +3

6 Jerry Kaplan Startup [Buy] 2/23 +2

5 Kaye Gibbons Ellen Foster [Buy] 2/16 +2

4 Charles Palliser The Quincunx [Buy] 2/7 +1

3 Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air [Buy] 1/29 +3

2 Ernest Gaines In My Father's House [Buy] 1/18 +1

1 Kaye Gibbons A Virtuous Woman [Buy] 1/3 +2

1999 books
1997 books

Rating Scale

-4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4

All-time worst Hated it, struggled through it Annoyingly bad Sorry I read it Could take it or leave it Okay, enjoyable enough Good book, enjoyed it Great book, loved it All-time favorite