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Recommended Books: Fiction

Posted on July 26, 2015 by sheila

I’ve added to this list. I still want to do a Non-Fiction one, eventually, but … you know … time permitting. Some authors are represented multiple times here. Other authors aren’t represented at all. For no real reason. Don’t read … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, James Joyce | Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Amongst Women, Annie Proulx, Arthur Koestler, At Swim-Two-Birds, Bad Behavior, Beware of Pity, Birds of America, Bleak House, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Christine Falls, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Crime and Punishment, Curtis Sittenfeld, Darkness at Noon, Dublin, Dubliners, East of Eden, Edna O'Brien, Elinor Lipman, England, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, Franny and Zooey, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Geek Love, George Eliot, George Orwell, Going After Cacciato, Handmaid's Tale, Henry James, Herman Melville, Hopeful Monsters, House of Leaves, Huckleberry Finn, Inherent Vice, J.D. Salinger, James Salter, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, Jincy Willett, Joan Didion, John Banville, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, Joshua Ferris, Joy Williams, Katherine Dunn, Keri Hulme, Kirov, Lives of the Saints, Lorrie Moore, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mark Helprin, Mary Gaitskill, Master and Margarita, Mating, Michael Chabon, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nancy Lemann, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick O'Brian, Philip K. Dick, Play It As It Lays, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Possession, Prep, Russia, Scoop, Sexing the Cherry, Shirley Jackson, Stefan Zweig, Stephen King, Tana French, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Bone People, The Country Girls, The Dead, The Grass Harp, The Great Gatsby, The Passion, The Shipping News, Then She Found Me, Tim O'Brien, Truman Capote, Victor Serge, Villette, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Winter's Tale | 103 Comments

2008 Books Read

Posted on December 31, 2008 by sheila

… in the order in which I finished them, understanding that very often I read many books at the same time. I count re-read books, by the way. I’ll include links to any posts or book excerpts I might have … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Personal | Tagged Blood Meridian, books read, Christine Falls, Decline and Fall, Eminem, Evelyn Waugh, Garson Kanin, James Monroe, Jeanette Winterson, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nine Stories, Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, Post Captain, Robert Conquest, Rumble Fish, Tennessee Williams, That Night, The ABCs of Love, The Loved One, The Pornographer, The Sea, The World and Other Places, The Writing Class, Then We Came To The End, Thomas Jefferson, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, William Hazlitt | 15 Comments

Book QA

Posted on January 23, 2008 by sheila

I got this from Ted! Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Strangely enough, I cringed from reading Harry Potter. Chalk it up to my contrarian nature. If there is a unanimous clarion … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Annie Proulx, Harry Potter, Lives of the Saints, Mating, Shirley Jackson, The Shipping News, The World According to Garp, We Have Always Lived In The Castle | 23 Comments

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