Books & Writers for Study

 

A selection of Prose Narrative and writers

...recommended by my friends and students as exemplary and worthy of enjoyment and even study:

 

 

 

What I Loved Siri Hustredt "Innovative Book of Ideas"
The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Nuffeneger "Brilliant handling of flash forward and flash back and point of view"
The Glass Castle
The Case of the Dog in the Night "Excellent consistent voice"
Vernon God Little
The World According to Garp "John Irving"
King Kong on East 4th Street "Social Study Lower East Side in 80's"
100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
Three Junes Julia Glass
The Secret History Donna Tratt
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
Possession A.s. Byatt
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Murakai "Freedom to be imaginative"
Nine Stories J.D. Salinger "Simplicity in setting up complex characters"
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte "Just Perfect"
THe Eyre Affair Jasper Fford "This is jsut for fun i fyou love Jane Eure"
Thank you for Smoking Christopher Buckley
Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl "Clever literary murder mystery"
The Alchemist Paulo Cochlo
Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
Push   Sapphire  

Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
War and Peace Tolstoy
Man in Full Tom Wolfe   
Revolutionary Road       Richard Yates   
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafron  
Pulp Charles Bukowski
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
Zafron The Angels Game, Shadow of the Wind
Muriel BertenzThe Elegance of the Hedgehod
The Witch from Portobello Paulo Coelho
World Without End Ken Follett
Portnyoy's Complaint Philip Roth
Oradell at Sea MSW
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Kite Runner Khalid Hoseini
Fear and Loathing
Junky
The Reader Bernard Schlou??
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Savage Detectrives Roboeerto Bolano
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defore
Beloved Toni Morrison
Iceberg Slim Fox??
Love Medicine Lousie Erdrich
Odd Girl Out ANne Bannon
Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
Body of Lies David Ignatious
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Northern Lights by Tim O Brien

 

   

       

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Orson Scott Card

Barbara Kingsolver

Hemingway

Richard Morgan

Alice Munro

 

 
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