Posts Tagged ‘favorite books’
W. S. Merwin’s The Book of Fables
Wonder can matter more than statistics and facts
Read MoreF. Scott Fitzgerald’s Collected Stories
Drippingly romantic and dead on
Read MorePeter Stamm’s Seven Years
A novel of delusion, obsession, and redemption
Read MoreEdna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy
Utterly foreign and completely familiar
Read MoreMaxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Setting your own seat at the table
Read MoreArundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Intimate relationships shaped by the movement of history
Read MoreJulian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
A well-told story always feels true
Read MoreJonathan Franzen’s How to Be Alone
The shock of recognition
Read MoreAlbert Camus’ The Stranger
The mysterious nature of literary influence
Read MoreHarry Crews’s A Feast of Snakes
A book of radical sadness
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