| Cover | Title | Authors | Rating | Date Read | Notes |
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 | Moonrise | Ben Bova | 5 | 11/1/1998 | An extremely interesting story of one families obsession with the establishment of a permanent base on the moon, “Moonbase.” |
 | Rainbow Six | Tom Clancy | 4 | 10/1/1998 | Story of an anti-terrorist group lead by CIA spook John Clark. Better than your average “B” book. |
 | Lucky Bastard | CHARLES MCCARRY | 5 | 10/1/1998 | KGB agents spot and recriut who they believe will be a future president of the US, a man who thinks he is the bastard son of J.F.K. |
 | Lost World (Movie Tie-In) | MICHAEL CRICHTON | 5 | 10/1/1998 | Ian Malcom, the eccentric mathamatician from Jurassic Park, helps discover InGen’s “site B” and once again goes to observe dinasaurs brought back from extinction. |
 | Beyond the Fall of Night | Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford | 4 | 9/1/1998 | A continuation by Gregory Benford of the story originally writen by Clarke: Against the Fall of Night / The City and the Stars. The first part, writen by Clarke (Against the Fall of Night), is better. |
 | Foundation's Fear | Gregory Benford | 4 | 8/1/1998 | The first book of the new Foundation trilogy, without Asimov. The story of Hari Seldon and his journey to the First MInistership of the Empire. Better than the average “B” book. A better book than I thought it would be. |
 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 5 | 7/1/1998 | The story of a man who many thought had it all, a man who was the perfect father, until his only daughter grows up to commit unthinkable crimes. |
 | Heaven's Reach | DAVID BRIN | 3 | 6/1/1998 | Book three of the new uplift trilogy. A bit of a disappointment. |
 | Prayer for the Dead | David Wiltse | 3 | 6/1/1998 | A good thriller, but I could put it down. A reluctant, ex-FBI investigator with special talents seeks a killer on the loose. |
 | The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle) | JOHN IRVING | 5 | 5/1/1998 | A great book, but not as good as A Prayer for Owen Meany. A man struggles to form his own identity in the shadow of a famous mother. |
 | Blood Music | Greg Bear | 4 | 5/1/1998 | Scientist succeeds in creating intellegent cells. A great book, is not an A, but better than most B’s. Has made me consider rethinking my rating system. |
 | Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross Novels) | James Patterson | 4 | 5/1/1998 | A good book about a Washington D.C. detective who investigates a kidnapping and related murder. |
 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 2 | 4/1/1998 | A fair book about a future world society, where everyone is happy at the expense of personal liberties. |
 | Kiss the Girls | James Patterson | 4 | 4/1/1998 | Washington D.C. cop tracks two serial killers who kidnapped his niece. He is helped by a victim who escaped. An excellent book. |
 | Trunk Music (Detective Harry Bosch Mysteries) | Michael Connelly | 4 | 4/1/1998 | Hollywood detective investigates murder of movie producer. Probably closer to a B+. |
 | Voyage | Stephen Baxter | 4 | 3/1/1998 | JFK survives in 1963, Nixon chooses a Mars mission instead of the shuttle. The alternate history of what happens in NASA from 1969 thru 1986, when man lands on Mars. A good book (not great). |
 | Protector | Larry Niven | 4 | 3/1/1998 | “A book of known space.” Human kind’s first contact with thier likely ancestors, the Pak. A good book. A nice casual read. |
 | The Genesis Code | JOHN CASE | 5 | 3/1/1998 | A priest hears a terrible confession, a private detective investigates the murder of his sister and nephew. A conspiracy involving a mysterious group within the Catholic Church. A very good book. A thriller that moves. |
 | The Gold Coast (Three Californias) | KIM STANLEY ROBINSON | 3 | 2/1/1998 | A story of urban sprawl run amok, set in Orange County, California, 2027 A.D. |
 | The Street Lawyer | JOHN GRISHAM | 4 | 2/1/1998 | A wealthy, big firm lawyer becomes a public interest attorney after a brush with death with a homeless man. |
 | Contagion | Robin Cook | 4 | 1/1/1998 | Former optomologist seeking second life as medical examiner stumbles across apparent plot to infect a New York hospital with exotic infectious diseases. |
 | Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | JON KRAKAUER | 4 | 1/1/1998 | A journalist recalls his trip to the summit of Mt. Everest durring the deadly climbing season of 1996. A good book that is better than my average B. |
 | Angel of Darkness, The | CALEB CARR | 5 | 1/1/1998 | Sequel to “The Alienist.” I liked this book better than the first one. Very entertaining, from the beginning, if you liked the first one. Story told by the character Stevie Taggart, about the search for a kidnapper. |
 | Ringworld Throne | Larry Niven | 4 | 1/1/1998 | |
 | Shiva Descending | Gregory Benford, William Rotsler | 3 | 1/1/1998 | |