{"id":5416,"date":"2006-10-02T15:02:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2010-07-15T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:57:44","slug":"debut-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Best Debut Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great discussion going on here <\/a>about the “best debut novels”. Does it count if the author came out with a collection of short stories first??<\/p>\n

I say YES, it counts. Otherwise Jimmy couldn’t be on the list.<\/p>\n

My additions to the list:<\/p>\n

— Catch 22<\/i>, by Joseph Heller<\/p>\n

— The Mysteries of Pittsburgh<\/i>, by Michael Chabon<\/p>\n

— Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/i>, by James Joyce<\/p>\n

— Mating<\/i>, by Norman Rush<\/p>\n

— To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, by Harper Lee (uhm … debut and only)<\/p>\n

— Catcher in the Rye<\/i>, by JD Salinger<\/p>\n

— Carrie<\/i>, by Stephen King (that was his first, right?? Am I totally wrong?)<\/p>\n

— The Bone People<\/i>, by Keri Hulme (again: debut and only novel – which sucks – it is a fantastic book – she is MARVELOUS … anyone else read it??)<\/p>\n

Oh shit, how could I forget:<\/p>\n

— Anne of Green Gables<\/i>, by LM Montgomery<\/p>\n

What are some great debut novels that you can think of?? (And don’t be embarrassed about your personal taste, cause that’s no fun.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great discussion going on here about the “best debut novels”. Does it count if the author came out with a collection of short stories first?? I say YES, it counts. Otherwise Jimmy couldn’t be on the list. My additions to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21368,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/21368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}