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    Poisonwood Bible
    The Loop
    War & Remembrance
    Winds of War
    Angela's Ashes
    Henry VIII
    Pilot's Wife
    Replay
    Cold Mountain
    Comeback Choir
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    Where the Heart Is
    Widow For One Year
    Bucking the Sun
    Accidental Empires
    Midwives
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Ellen's book list
This is a list of all the books I read in 1999, 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 1999
No. Author Title Finished Rating
(-4 to +4)
21 Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible [Buy] 12/26 +1
[My review]
20 Nicholas Evans The Loop [Buy] 11/28 0
[My review]
19 Herman Wouk War and Remembrance [Buy] 11/22 +1
[My review]
18 Herman Wouk Winds of War [Buy] 10/11 +3
[My review]
17 Margaret George The Autobiography of Henry VIII [Buy] 9/13 +2
[My review]
16 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (half) [Buy] 8/24 -
[My review]
15 Anita Shreve The Pilot's Wife [Buy] 8/2 +1
[My review]
14 Ken Grimwood Replay [Buy] 7/26 +3
[My review]
13 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain [Buy] 7/22 +2
[My review]
12 Bebe Moore Campbell Singing in the Comeback Choir [Buy] 6/22 0
[My review]
11 Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha [Buy] 6/13 +3
[My review]
10 Billie Letts Where the Heart Is [Buy] 5/31 +1
[My review]
9 John Irving A Widow for One Year [Buy] 5/20 +4
[My review]
8 Ivan Doig Bucking the Sun [Buy] 5/17 -1
[My review]
7 Robert X. Cringley Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date [Buy] 3/29 +2
[My review]
6 Chris Bohjalian Midwives [Buy] 3/14 +3
[My review]
5 Bernhard Schlink The Reader [Buy] 3/3 +1
4 Jane Smiley The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton [Buy] 2/24 +2
3 Anna Quindlen Black and Blue [Buy] 2/14 +3
2 Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion (1/2) [Buy] 2/11 -2
1 Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow [Buy] 1/6
 
 2000 books
 
1998 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

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