Great Reads

Since I can’t review every book I read, here are some of my recommendations.

Contemporary Novels

Allison Pearson, I Don’t Know How She Does It

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Cat’s Eye, The Handmaid’s Tale

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

Jennifer Egan, The Keep, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, State of Wonder

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, Freedom

Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

Katherine Center, Everyone is Beautiful

Laura Moriarty, The Center of Everything

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

19th Century Novels

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Short Story Collections

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

Alice Munro, Hateship, Loveship, Courtship, Friendship, Marriage

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Maile Meloy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Nonfiction

Dave Cullen, Columbine

Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Peggy Vincent, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain

Liz Perle, Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Randi Hutter Epstein, Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth

Geneen Roth, Women, Food, and God

Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

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