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List of Recommended Books

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Monthly Book List Index

April 2024

The Uncommon Reader  by Alan Bennett


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


March 2024

The Bridge of San Luis Rey    by  Thornton Wilder

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 


February 2024

Treacle Walker    by  Alan Garner


January 2024

Lanny    by  Max Porter


December 2023

Nothing Daunted    by  Dorothy Wickenden


November 2023

Kramer Versus Kramer    by  Avery Corman


October 2023

The Awakening    by  Kate Chopin


September 2023

Tabloid City    by  Pete Hamill


August 2023

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


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

July 2023

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

Monthly Book List Index (continued)

June 2023

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

May 2023

Chances Are . . .   by Richard Russo

April 2023

The Good Muslim  by Tahmima Anam

March 2023

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

Introduction by Theresa Rebeck & Preface by Jacquelyn Reingold

February 2023

Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars  

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

January 2023

Horse  by Geraldine Brooks  

December 2022

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

November 2022

The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson  

October 2022

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler

September 2022

East of the Mountains by David Guterson

August 2022

The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene

July 2022

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 

MONTHLY BOOK LIST index (Continued)

June 2022

The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks

The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato

May 2022

Moratorium  Month 

April 2022

A Separate Country  by Robert Hicks

Sing Not War  by James Marten

Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet by James R. Reckner

The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley 

March 2022

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Giver of Stars by Jo Jo Moyes 

February 2022

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Lost Diary of Venice by Margaux DeRoux

January 2022

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa Lee

The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro


December 2021

The Last Pirate of New York by Rich Cohen

Gangsters & Gold Diggers by Jerome Charyn

The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje


November 2021

The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind by David Guterson

All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P Jones 

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

Best Debut Short Stories 2021 by The PEN AMERICA DAU Prize


October 2021

Lost States by Michael Trinklein

The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey 

The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester 

Longitude by Dava Sobel 

Brainscapes by Rebecca Schwarzlose

Wayfinding by M R O'Connor

See below for what these authors have written back IN REPLY to being selected.

MONTHLY BOOK list INDEX (continued)

September 2021

What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 

Other MInds by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Study of Animal Languages by Lindsay Stern

August 2021

The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch

The Wolf and the WatchmanT by Niklas Natt Och Dag

Ellie and the Harp Maker by Hazel Prior

How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

July 2021

The March by E L Doctorow

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 

Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri

The Last Astronaut by David Wellington

June 2021

The Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret by Glynis Ridley 

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Bearskin by James A McLaughlin

See below for what these authors have written back IN REPLY to being selected.

here's what other authors wrote back In reply ...

Taking time to dream together.

Karen Brooks

  

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

Lisa Lee

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

Miles Harvey

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

Sy Montgomery

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

Jonathan Balcombe

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.

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Thanks very much.

Best wishes.

Hazel Prior

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. 

Chris Offutt

Thank you.

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

[ 6.16.21 The Killing Hills ]

Glynis Ridley

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.  

James A McLaughlin

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.


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