I don’t read a lot of ‘pure’ fiction. Real life is usually enough, you know? Favorites include Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan and… um… some other people. Might be awhile before these reviews flesh out.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, Rod Bradbury (translator)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Dream of A Common Language by Adrienne Rich (poetry)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Cursed, by Jeremy C. Shipp (I have no idea where to shelve this one–it’s a genre-bender)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
bellwether by Connie Willis
Quin’s Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore
Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4) by P.G. Wodehouse
Someday, I’ll add in a comics/graphics page, eh?
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