1990

1. The Plains of Passage, Jean M. Auel 1,393 copies on LT

2. Four Past Midnight, Stephen King 1,574 copies

3. The Burden of Proof, Scott Turow 511 copies

4. Memories of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon 191 copies

5. Message from Nam, Danielle Steel 115 copies

6. The Bourne Ultimatum, Robert Ludlum 983 copies

7. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, Stephen King 2,067 copies

8. Lady Boss, Jackie Collins 103 copies

9. The Witching Hour, Anne Rice 2,279 copies

10. September, Rosamunde Pilcher 320 copies

Out of these I have read:
Message From Nam
Lady Boss and
The Witching Hour
The Witching Hour to me has been the best Anne Rice novel ever written. That was the very first Anne Rice book I read which turned me on to her in the first place.
Message From Nam was okay, that I can remember. I'm not a fan of Steel, but somehow her books always makes the bestseller lists.
Lady Boss was fair. I believe that is book 3 in the Lucky series which is one of Jackie Collins' best imo, aside from Hollywood Wives.

I may have read The Bourne Ultimatum, I can't remember, but otherwise, 0 for me this year. BUT-- this list contains
The Witching Hour, Four Past Midnight, and Memories of Midnight. Coincidence?

I'm wrong -- I also read September recently, but it was so forgettable that I forgot I had read it...

I know I read and loved The Witching Hour though as I've said elsewhere on LT Anne Rice doesn't know when to stop. The big tall rubber monster babies were just too much and quite a let down. I'm pretty sure I've read The Plains of Passage, but that whole series started to deteriorate after a while as well.

Both my mother and my wife's mother loved Rosamunde Pilcher's September and my wife really liked The Plains of Passage. But this was the period when I avoided bestsellers.

Message from Nam was the final straw in reading Danielle Steel--never read another one. I quit Plains of Passage 150 pages into the book. I loved September and The Stand was riveting.

I think there's a copy of The Burden of Proof floating around my parent's house. Other than that, nothing.

Read -
Plains of Passage - awful, read the whole thing.
Four Past Midnight - fun and sinister.
The Stand (Uncut) - was better the first time around.
The Witching Hour - painful, couldn't finish it.

US Non-Fiction

1. A Life on the Road, Charles Kuralt 95 copies on LT

2. The Civil War, Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns 426 copies

3. The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Heritage: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother, Jeff Smith 158 copies

4. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book 1,253 copies

5. Financial Self-Defense: How To Win the Fight for Financial Freedom, Charles J. Givens 48 copies

6. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, John Bradshaw 116 copies

7. Wealth Without Risk: How To Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb, Charles J. Givens 51 copies

8. Bo Knows Bo, Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap 17 copies

9. An American Life: An Autobiography, Ronald Reagan 148 copies

10. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990s, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene 120 copies

I miss Mr. Kuralt.

We have owned both # 6 and #10 -- I'mnot sure that we do now.

I read the Reagan autobiography and liked it.

I still have many of the Frugal Gourmet books. His career had a sad end, I think. Something about being accused of sexual harrasment by one of his male chefs. A shame, because that was an entertaining TV show. He never claimed to be a chef but still took a lot of heat for his techniques. This was the first cooking show (and cookbooks) that held my interest.

Steel keeps going and going.

I listened to A Life on the Road, and found it to be enjoyable.

Yeah, I miss Charlie Kuralt too, varielle. If I recall correctly, a couple of years after he died, it came out that he'd had another separate family 'on the road', one that his 'real' family had no idea about.

Zilch

I read the first two books in Jean Auel's series. The first was enjoyable, the second less so. After that she descended into soap opera territory and I didn't read any more.

Enjoyed The Civil War - didn' t get to see all of the series on TV.

Read Reagan's autobiography and found it as vacuous as the man himself. This was the book that convinced a friend, who had been a lifelong Republican, to re-register as an independent.