Books that I read during 1996 (not technical, of course, who cares about which geek stuff I spent my money on!)

• "Three lives", Gertrude Stein
• "Midnight's Children", Salman Rushdie
• "The Story of Zahra", Hanen al-Shaykh
• "Paula", Isabel Allende
• "The Liar's Club", Mary Karr
• "Follow your Heart", Suzana Camaro
• "Kitchen", Banana Yamamoto
• "O Carteiro e o Poeta", Antonio Skarmeta
• "Snow Falling on Cedars", David Guterson
• "Isabel's Bed", Elinor Lipman
• "All I need to know about animal behavior I learned in Loheman's Dressing Room", Erma Bombeck
• "The Stones diary", Carol Shields
• "Nine Parts of Desire", Geraldine Brooks
• "Map of the World", Jane Hamilton
• "Appetites", Geneen Roth
• "Cat's eye", Margaret Atwood
• "Moo", Janey Smiley
• "The Rape of Sita", Lindsey Collen
• "Buraco na Parede", Rubem Fonseca
• "Crossing to Avalon", Jean Shinoda Bolen
• "Women who run with the wolves", Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• "Emma", Jane Austin
• "The Great Gatsby", Francis Scott Fitzgerald