Friday's List: Back in Time

Do you remember what you were reading around this time of year, ten years ago? How about twenty years ago? I've kept reading lists over the years, but not always by the month or week. And during the '90s, for a lot of reasons, my reading had fallen off alarmingly -- so there are tons of books from that period that I'd still love to read. In fact, I've got a sort of perpetual personal reading challenge going on, to nudge me into doing just that.

So I've been looking at some of the best-seller lists from that period. Here's the New York Times best-selling fiction list for the week of June 9th, 1991:

1. Loves Music, Loves to Dance, by Mary Higgins Clark
2. Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
3. As the Crow Flies, by Jeffrey Archer
4. The Firm, by John Grisham
5. Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn
6. "H" is for Homicide, by Sue Grafton
7. Bright Captivity, by Eugenia Price
8. Heartbeat, by Danielle Steel
9. Immortality, by Milan Kundera
10. The Crown of Columbus, by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
11. The Seeress of Kell, by David Eddings
12. Damage, by Josephine Hart
13. Object Lessons, by Anna Quindlen
14. The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal, by Lilian Jackson Braun
15. The Seventh Commandment, by Lawrence Sanders

It's interesting to see how many of those authors are still publishing best-sellers twenty years later. Also interesting that both Josephine Hart and Lilian Jackson Braun died just this month.

Sad to say, I have not read a single one of the books on the list -- not even the Dr. Seuss! I was reading quite a bit of Milan Kundera back then, but managed to miss the book listed here; it's going on my Reading the '90s Challenge list right away!