This was the booklist I sent to Oprah on Fri Jul 20-01 in
conjunction with a cover letter.  I received a confirmation from
the post office on Jul 30 that my packet had been received in
Chicago.  I hope to hear something from Harpo Productions.

                            BOOKLIST

"Literature is a luxury.  Fiction is a necessity."--G. K.
chesterton.  

My booklist (of which this is a small part)  covers everything from
a relatively recent book, The Discoverers written by a former
Librarian of Congress, that chronicled the discoveries of mankind
in all  areas of knowledge to various best-sellers and genre
fiction including such exotics as AZTEC, POLAND, MANDARIN, NOBLE
HOUSE, Yedo, Moghul, THE JOURNEYER, RAPTOR, CARIBBEE, WHIRLWIND,
SHOGUN, and other books designed to illuminate a culture and take
the reader/listener TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (another book) while
chronicling civilizations GONE WITH THE WIND  .

Here is a sampling of the list.  (RD = Rigid Disk which is a format
no longer used by NLS at www.LOC.GOV/NLS as is TB,  
RFB or RFB&D = Recording for the BLind and Dyslexic at www.RFBD.ORG
which is the largest providerd of college and nonfiction texts in
the world, 
VOV = Volunteers of Vaccaville which is a prison-based reading
service)
BRL = Braille text
!!! = skimmed, did not read all of the book.
+ = a good book.
* = a top book!

Summer of 1980
1.  the river road

          2.  the magic orange tree
          
3.  the singing tree
          
4.  the midnight express

          5.  the martian chronicles
          
6.  the playboy book of science fiction and fantasy

Summer of 1981
1.  a galaxy of strangers
          
2.  the aliens
          
3.  babi yar, a document in the form of a novel
          
4.  aunt erma's cope book
          
5.  the cactus throne  TB
          
6.  father figure
          
7.  the machine gunners
...
50.  thy neighbor's wife
          
51.  mojo and the russians
          
52.  little town on the prairie
          
53.  leonardo de vinci
          
54.  the universe of galileo and newton
          
55.  plants do amazing things
          
56.  ri
          
57.  on with the show
          
58.  a gathering of days  BRL
          
59.            silver on the tree
          
60.  talking between the lines
          
61.  how long is always?

Summer of 1982
1.  dancer from atlantis
          
2.  cajuns, from nova scotia to louisiana
          
3.  police state (Jun7)

4.  the nighttime guy
          
5.  the river and the stone
          
6.  the infinite arena  RD
          
7.  childhood's end
          
8.  kindred
...

Summer of 1983
...
3.  a streetcar named desire
          
4.  a boy called hopeless
          
5.  the case of lucy bending          

6.            native tongues
          
7.  journey to paradise
          
8.  bridge to the sun
...

Summer 1984
1.  my russian journal
          
2.  the salamandra glass
          
3.  the otherwise girl  BRL
...

Summer of 1985
1.  the first elizabeth
          
2.  michael
          
3.  me, me, me, me, me
          
4.  the manhattan gambit  BRL
          
5.  the children's story
...
                  8.  jacqueline susan's dolores  RD
   ...
19.  bricktop
...


Summer of 1986
4.  i, juan de pareja
...       
11.  tancy
...
16.  aztec
          
17.  royal secrets
...

On December 12, 1986, I now started keeping a complete yearly
booklist and will excerpt
sections.

1987
...
28.  books that made the difference
          
29.  the emancipist
          
30.  leonie:  RD
          
31.  emma and i

282.  linguistics for the student of literature (rfb)
          
283.  the sound and the fury (RFB&D.
          
284.  jobs for english majors and other smart people (private
reader)
          
285.  caught in a web of words!!!  RFB
          
286.  gre: complete preparation for the new test, 1984

1988

1.  shan
          
2.  the beacon at alexandria:  eunuchs do make interesting
characters in books even pretend ones.  See also Raptor and River
God Cry to Heaven, 
...
54.  books in our future
          
55.  watchers
          
56.  game's end

57.  vicki
...
117.  singin' and swingin' and gettin' married like christmas:  RD 
Angelou writes such interesting things.  She certainly has lived. 
I mean, she knew about things like cocaine and Lesbians before
middle-class white America had ever heard of them.
...
251.  how do you kiss a blind girl?
          
252.  in my own fashion
          
253.  weaveworld:  Strange
          
254.  the king's pleasure
          
255.  the "it" girls
          
256.  are you happy:
          
257.  bus 9 to paradise:
          
258.  when bad things happen to good people:  Not sure I agree with
his idea of a God who cannot interfere with His Creation.
...

1989
...
4.  black boy BRL
          
5.  the assyrian
          
6.  the official preppy handbook (RFB)
...
1990
...
10.  peachtree road:  Nader chewed the  green cassette boxFuzzy
yellow puppy.  Offered to pay but library said not a problem-
cool library.
...
69.  the beansprout book
          
70.  the moosewood cookbook  BRL

71.  The bach flower remedies!!! (rfb)
          
72.  final frontier
          
73.  diet for a new america (rfb)
          
74.  putting up stuff for the cold time:  Thought the author's last
name, Dragonwagon was interesting.
          
75.  mary ellen's best of helpful kitchen hints
          
76.  the little house cookbook:  I liked this one for the history
of food preparation during the 19th century.
          
77.  homeopathy: medicine of the new man (rfb)
          
78.  the world's best foods  BRL
          
79.  life and death in shanghai
          
80.  imperial purple:  I like her books.
...
96.  everybody loves oprah!:  Wonder if she'll ever write her own
story and not have it pulled at the last minute.  I had hoped to
read her autobiography.
...
1991
...
12.  populuxe!!!
          
13.  stalking the wild asparagus
          
14.  the unwanted
          
15.  widow of desire
          
16.  permanent partners!!!
          
17.  twilight of dawn
          
18.  the pilars of the earth
          
19.  daughters
...
25.  somebody else's kids:  Tori always has something interesting
to say about the kids nobody wants to teach.
...
28.  call her miss ross:  Miss Boss would be more like it if this
is even 10% true.
          
29.  i want to grow hair, i want to grow up, and i want to go     
     to boisee: surviving cancer:  I was so impressed Bombeck
donated the money to cancer research.
...
106.  eight mules from monterey:  About the first library in the
region on mule back.
...
161.  how to shit in the woods
          
162.  the spy went dancing:  Would have loved to meet her.
          
163.  return to eden
         ...

1992
...
27.  byzantium:  Good.  A long historical like the stuff Jean Auel
did.  Hope she finishes The Clan of the Cave Bear books.  Children
of Earth Series.
          
28.  beverly hills
          
29.  black tie only
          
30.  what color is the sun
          
31.  knock 'em dead
...
57.  mississippi bridge
...
68.  shoot low, boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies
          
69.  jazz cleopatra
...
1993
1.  natural health, natural medicine
          
2.  ruska 
...
45.  the piano lesson
...
58.  the woman of wyrrd
          
59.  i never met an animal i didn't like
...
64.  the people of nowhere
          
65.  remember me to harold square
          
66.  southern discomfort
...
94.  when angels appear
          
95.  nun: a memoir
...
123.  healing and the mind!!! (RFB) 
          
124.  jewels
...
280.  Cassette Books: 1992
          
281.  domes of fire
1994
1.  power play
          
2.  cooking with eight items or less: BRL
          
3.  earl mindell's herb bible!!!
...
196.  remembering denny
          
197.  kwanza: an african-american celebration of culture and
cooking
...
258.  a lesson before dying:  So sad.  Like medicine-you may not
like taking it but will be better off for the doing.
          
259.  taste of salt: a story of modern haiti:  Howwrong things seem
to have gone there.
          
260.  my name is sus5an smith. the 5 is silent:  Cool.  But the
painting she did at school was nasty with the skeleton parts.
...
286.  DISAPPEARING acts:  I liked Waiting to Exhale better.
...
305.  flavor of the month:  I liked that the female Lab was named
Oprah--big, black, and smart.  (or so the author wrote.)  Perhaps,
its namesake might object. 
Wonder if you have clear that with famous people.  Isn't Oprah a
trademark of Harpo Productions.  
...
1995
1.  a timely affair:  Time travel romance.  Learned later in
library school, they are popular.  I like when done well.
          
2.  black ice
          
3.  daughter of the red deer
...
10.  the venetian mask (Jan23)  Laker is always nice and escapist
with historic overtones.
...
58.  buppies, b-boys, baps, and bohos: notes on post-soul
black culture!!!
          
59.  old dogs, old friends!!!
...
86.  SWITCHING well
          
87.  battle of the books: the curriculum debate in america

88.  six out seven
...
91.  aztec (sept4) Reread.
          
92.  probably still nick swansen
          
93.  stories for the christian year:  Very good.
...
98.  THE sewing room
          
99.  the sweeter the juice
...
114.  winning at trivial pursuit (vov)  I will one day get on a
trivia gameshow if it kills me!!!
...
162.           the nancy drew scrapbook
...
1996
...
2.  james beard: a biography
          
3.  saved by the light:
...
50.  the internet complete reference:  E-mailed the author Harley
Hahn and we discussed some computer things.
...
52.  soul retrieval: mending the fragmented self (mar23) RFB
...
56.  DREAMS of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood (apr5)
          Taking bluegreen algae at present.

57.  radical red
...
102.  Sarek:  Along with Prime Directive undoubtedly the best Star
Trek novel written that I have read.  Notable because of its well-
drawn characters and believable themes.
...
137.  Coffee Will Make You Black
...
163.  Soul to Soul

1997
...
11.  networld (jan15) rfB.  E-mailed author.  
...
98.  the intelligence of dogs
          
99.  Copyright's Highway:
...
107.  poison
          
108.  1939: the lost world of the fair:  Wish there were more books
on world's fairs and expos.
...
168.  City Life:

169.  An acceptable time:  L'Engle always has something to say to
make her reader-young and old-think.
          
1998
1.            the oracle glass

2.  emotional intelligence!!!  Did not understand this book.

3.  L is for Lawless:  Variety Audio Tapes out of San Jose, CaA aka
Books Aloud

    4.        the last frost fair:  Variety Audio/Books Aloud

5.  walking west

6.            sisters and lovers
...
83.  there is a boy in here:  Autism from the point of view of the
person with the condition.

84.  rosa lee:  Her life did count.  She tried to tell people not
to make the mistakes she made.

90.  pope joan jul12  I hope there really was a woman Pope. 
Couldn't be any worse than some of the men!
...
1999
*1.  the quality of mercy, neat, too bad Dr. Lopez really wasn't
saved in this switch manner, or was he?

+2.  Diary of a cat:  
...
43.  Ageless Body, Timeless Mind:  reread but had heard much of
this before in other Chopra books.  It would be neat to meditate
out of time but while I'd dearly love to go to one of his institute
things, I can't afford it and they ain't about to do any medicare
or medicaid stuff in alternative medicine. 
...
102.  Anatomy of the Spirit:  Wow!  Where is she.  I want to go to
her to be read.
...
**137.  I Know This Much Is True:  Good book.  His sense of
character reminds me of Stephen King.  Dominick was interesting, a
complex individual.  Dr. Patell was a trip.
...
*142.  White Lilacs:  If Oprah had a junior bookclub, this might be
one of the selections.  
...
*163.  Queen of Swords:  Exotic, careful.  Long!  Didn't know
author has a PH.D. and is deaf.
...
188.  The New Psychiatry:  There is no real shrink like this guy. 
He is too nice.
...
238.  What Seems Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day:  Very good.  I
especially liked the scene in the church.
...
2000
...

*2.  The Memoirs of Cleopatra:  L!O!N!G!  Interesting.  I like
first-person best.  Wonder why no one has written of the Selucids
in Syria or from the point of view of the Carthaginians.  Exotic. 
Wonder if Margaret George would consider doing a Memoirs of
Catherine the Great.  The first 24 sides dealt with Cleopatra's
first 29 years.  Jan 8

3.  Little X:  Interesting.  Some of the ideas were quite
something.
...
**172.  Do They Hear You When You Cry:  Sad but she did get people
to help her.  I need to keep trying to get a library job.  I miss
Nader today.  I wish the fund I had started with the guide dog
school had
grown and that the Chicken Soup for the ... Soul people would have
published my essay about Nader.
...
178.  Makes Me Wanna Holler:  Title from a Marvin Gay song "Inner
City Blues"  I did not understand McCall.  He has such an animous
to everything white.  Yet he admits to stealing, committing armed
robbery, taking part in gang rapes, violence, being in jail,
fathering at least three children maybe more.  I just didn't know
what to make of him.  He raises valid criticisms about society. 
But he can tell a story.  Write interesting nonfiction.  But how
would he like to be blind and then he could really feel out of the
mainstream.  Wonder if Oprah ever had him on?
...
2001
26.  You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought:  RFB&D I
liked having finally read this book.  Had tried in 1994.  Maybe it
wasn't the right time then.  I saw a book mentioned in this book on
about page 309 that came out in 1991 published by Pantheon that was
about all the wrong predictions the experts had made.  
...
31.  Diana in Search of Herself:  Interesting book that puts
forward the theory that Diana suffered from borderline personality
disorder.  Chapter 24 appears to contain a misprint.  Roberto
Dvorak is quoted as saying that Diana and Prince Philip had a
mother-son and mother-husband relationship.  William had been the
subject of previous paragraphs.  Not a bad book but one never knows
what or whom to believe anymore.  I wonder if Princess Diana really
was to be in Washington, D.C. in Sept 1997 as someone at either the
Hirschhorn gallery or the Textile Museum had told me.  I was unable
to go sightseeing anyway as my friend was unable to make it. 
Also skimmed briefly Other Lives, Other Selves RFB&D and The
Journey Within RFB&D.
...
39.  TBT:  Talking Book Topics, annotated catalog of new recorded
books.

40.  River, Cross My Heart:  Good.  Not too long.  But it did have
some rather mystical sections like when Johnie May stared into the
pot of cooking snap beans and saw her dead sister's face and at the
end of the book when she is swimming in a championship and sees her
sister in the river.
...
**127.  Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith.  A very good
book.  She needs to write more.  "Zap Jesus" is how she describes
defrosting by microwaving the Communion Bread.  Hmmm.  "Doubt is to
me the hand-maiden to faith; its cup, the one that keeps faith
straight.  To doubt is an indication of freedom; and a guard
against fanatacism.  But it is also so easy to doubt, so easy to be
cynical that the job appears to be enlarge the part that believes,
but only to enlarge it by taking the path made painful bythe doubt
and with the integrity born of the doubt rather than the inflation
born of sentiment, hightened emotion, or the sometimes false-
comraudery of a faith community."  ...  "Episcopalians are Anglo-
Catholics in tradition if not always in practice.  That is we are
a Catholic Church separated from Rome.  In 1529, Henry VIII had
given up his quest to have the Pope pronounce his marriage his
mariage annuled, and turned toward convincing Parliament of the
need for a new church.  By 1534, England had an English Church with
the King as its head.  We are a church born in the lust and
ambition of a King at a time that coincided with the Reformation
sweeping Europe, a time when radical theology smuggled in from
Germany happened to coincide with a political impass between royal
and papal spheres of influence-as an English priest it."  But Henry
was not a Protestant.  He refused to change the form or language of
the Mass and punished those who wanted further reforms.  He
attended Mass 3 times a day when he was hunting and sometimes 5
times a day when he was not.  In January 1547, Henry died and
Reform began in earnest.  Lutheran principles undergirded the many
changes: the Mass was said in English, the laity were invited to
become active  participants rather than spectators during the
service. priests were allowed to marry.  In 1549, Archbishop,
Thomas Cranmer, a quiet scholar who spent three quarters of his
days at study finished The Book of Common Prayer.  Cranmer believed
in reform but loved what was best of the old.  He was a genius at
Liturgy and created a Mass that combined Medieval Rites with
Protestant simplicity-delicate yet austere.--According to historian
Owen Chadwick.  She mentioned several angel movies that sounded
interesting.  Perhaps, Divine Wings and Too Far Too Soon.  Forgot
what a canon to the ordinary is.  Spent too much money-$18.00 to
eat sushi today.  If I had not ordered dessert, green tea ice-
cream, I'd have saved $3.95.  I really need to stop spending money
so recklessly.  Got Barbara Tuchman's book, The Proud Tower and am
waiting for her, A Distant Mirror.  Sent an e-mail to Mrs. Green,
my Reader Advisor, re
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of.  Bryan called today-June 7-to say
hello.  Hadn't heard from him in a while.  I suppose if I am going
to journal at all I should do it in the context of this book
matrix.