List of Recommended Books

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The Sense of an Ending    by  Julian Barnes

Winner of the 2011Man Booker Prize 

Every Heart a Doorway  by Seanan McGuire

Mr. Fox     by Helen Oyeyemi

The Bridge of San Luis Rey    by  Thornton Wilder

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

Treacle Walker    by  Alan Garner

Lanny    by  Max Porter

Nothing Daunted    by  Dorothy Wickenden

Kramer Versus Kramer    by  Avery Corman

The Awakening    by  Kate Chopin

Tabloid City    by  Pete Hamill

The Lost Wife: A Novel     by  Susanna Moore (2023)

Six Weeks in Sioux Tepees   by Sarah F Wakefield  (1864)

The Best American Short Stories of 2022     edited by Andrew Sean Greer with Heidi Pitlor

Best Debut Short Stories of 2022     edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers

Chances Are . . .   by Richard Russo

The Good Muslim  by Tahmima Anam

She Persisted: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays by Women over Forty

Introduction by Theresa Rebeck & Preface by Jacquelyn Reingold

Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars  

by Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, and Graham White 

Horse  by Geraldine Brooks  

A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories compiled by Bettye Collier-Thomas  

The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson  

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler

East of the Mountains by David Guterson

The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 

Your review of Good Wife of Bath is simply fabulous. Thank you for your wonderful words and terrific insights. It’s made my day to read it and I am so looking forward to reading your short story, "A Cook’s Tale" (It sounds so clever)   Thank you for being so kind as to review my book and so amazingly generous in your words.

Warmest wishes,

Dr. Karen Brooks: Author and columnist

What a lovely website you have!  I just spent some time perusing it. Thank you so much for choosing to highlight The Island of Sea Women. And thank you even more for all your beautiful and thoughtful words about the book.   

With all good cheer,

Lisa

Thanks for the kind and perceptive thoughts about my book, and congrats on a very cool site. With book pages becoming an endangered species in traditional media, it's great to know that there are thoughtful reviewers like you out there.

With thanks and best wishes,

Miles Harvey

Thank you.

Cool website! And so delighted to learn about your work!

Thanks so much for featuring my book along with Jonathan's and Peter's--now I have to read that novel! Thanks for turning me on to it.

Best wishes,

Sy

Thank you for featuring my book on your website, and for letting me know. Could you please direct me to the right page? I've visited your beautiful website twice and have been unable to find it. I would like to include a link in my next All Things Fish (and Flies) newsletter.

Thanks very much.

Best wishes.

Richard, thank you so much for contacting me and I'm absolutely delighted you've enjoyed both my books. It's a real honour to be featured twice on your August recommendations. I wish you all success with your own books. Warmest wishes from Exmoor. 

Thank you.

Particularly special for me because today is pub-day for my new book.

[ 6.16.21 The Killing Hills ]

Thank you so much for the great review, Richard. And for pairing Baret with a telling of Cathy Williams's story - so many remarkable women to be brought out of the archives. Look forward to reading your future recommendations. Best of luck with your writing.  

Rich, thank you for reading my book, for reaching out to me, and especially for posting Bearskin in the list on your site. Hopefully some folks will take your recommendation!

Thanks again and best wishes.