Books I’ve Recently Loved
Olive Kitterage by Elizabeth Strout
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A Brilliant Novel In The Works by Yuvi Zalkow
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber
How The Garica Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
Be Pretty, Get Married, and Always Drink Tab by Gigi Anders
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Emma by Jane Austen (I read it every few years.)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny by Suze Orman
The Red Tent is one of my favorite books of all time! Have you read She’s Come Undone? If not…you should.
Those are both great books. I have read both, but it’s been awhile so I didn’t think they counted as recently. I’m currently reading Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber and I’m loving it. It will go on the list for sure, when I finish. You should read it, too!
I would suggest “The Penelopiad” by Atwood for your list.
Hi again, Emma!
I’m doing an ArchiveDive here, since I just found you this afternoon
Funny, I just had a feeling that “The Red Tent” would be on this list – delighted (and a little freaked out) to really find it here. It’s a terrific example of how ‘changing the questions you ask’ will give such a different answer, isn’t it?
Happy Tuesday to you!