Keith's recommended book list

 

AUTHOR	TITLE	COMMENTS
Alice Munro	Runaway
	The Views from Castle Rock
	A Man Booker prize winner	She writes short stories, but not too
	"She is unmatched as an artist of the	short. You can get your teeth into them.
	highly nuanced private lives of modern women."
	. Rachel Cusk, New Statesman.
Alice Walker	Horses Make Landscape Look More Beautiful	a great book of poems
	The Color Purple	and all her other novels
Alison Lurie	Foreign Affairs	Pulitzer prize winner
	The Last Resort
Anita Shreve	Not great books, but always a good read...
Anne Enright	The Gathering	and others
Anne Tyler	Not great, but always a good read...
	The Accidental Tourist
	Breathing Lessons
	The Ladder of Years	and others
Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
	and any of her other books...
Barbara Kingsolver	The Poisonwood Bible (a great book)	a masterpiece
	Prodigal Summer (a great book)	great book
	The Bean Tree
	Pigs in Heaven
	Animal Dreams
	Small Changes
	Vida
	The Lacuna	Winner of Orange Prize 2010
Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries	a great book
	Mary Swann
	Larry's party
	and any of her other books..
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	The Yellow Wallpaper	unusual, early feminist
Dorothy Rowe	The Art of Happiness	A punchy advocate of a stripped-
	Wanting Everything	down psychoanalysis, focusing
	Time on our Side	on how we can deal more
	Breaking the Bonds	effectively with the world
		around us.
Elspeth Huxley	Red Strangers	Set in Africa, told from the
		Africans' viewpoint. Fascinating.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz	A Recipe for Bees
Helen Dunmore	Siege	Orange prize winner
Janice Galloway	The Trick is to Keep Breathing	a great first novel
Joan Barfoot	Gaining Ground	a masterpiece
	Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch	multi award winning Canadian
	Getting over Edgar	writer. Great!!
	Critical Injuries
	Family News
	Duet for Three
	Luck
	Exit Lines
Marge Piercy	Woman on the Edge of Time	a masterpiece
	Three Women
	and any of her other books...
Marion Husband	Say you love me
	Paper Moon
	The Boy I love	and others
Mary Lawson	The Other Side of the Bridge
	Crow lake
Nawal El Sadawi	A Daughter of Isis	Egyptian feminist writer that had
	Walking through Fire	to flee Egypt.
Sue Miller	Lost in the Forest	and any others
Susan Hill	Strange Meeting
	The Service of Clouds
Willa Cather	My Antonia	and others

Books by Men

Ian McEwan and William Trevor are usually readable, can't think of any other men at the moment. I'll think about it.....