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Lex

(34,108 posts)
9. Start with these
Thu May 3, 2012, 09:17 AM
May 2012

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Possession - A. S. Byatt
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
So Far From God - Ana Castillo
My Antonia - Willa Cather
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Elders and Betters - Ivy Compton-Burnett
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr
The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
Rebecca - Dumaurier
Second Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta
Tracks - Louise Erdrich
At Freddie's - Penelope Fitzgerald
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
The Mind-Body Problem - Rebecca Goldstein
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
The Rest of Life - Mary Gordon
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
When Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head
The Talented Mr. Ripley -Patricia Highsmith
The Furies - Janet Hobhouse
The Bone People - Keri Hulme
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Tripmaster Monkey - Maxine Hong Kingston
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
The Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Golden Notebook - Doris M. Lessing
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
The Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
Mama - Terry McMillan
Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Wife - Bharati Mukherjee
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
House of Splendid Isolation - Edna O'Brien
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute - Grace Paley
The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
Black Tickets - Jayne Anne Phillips
Braided Lives - Marge Piercy
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
The Golden Spur - Dawn Powell
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulxd
The King Must Die - Mary Renault
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Housekeeping - Marilynn Robinson
The God of Small Things - Arundati Roy
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing -May Sarton
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
Anywhere But Here - Mona Simpson
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
The Age of Grief - Jane Smiley
The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
If Morning Ever Comes -Anne Tyler
Away - Jane Urquhart
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil - Fay Weldon
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Frost in May - Antonia White
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison

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Well... Little Star May 2012 #1
Louise Penny, Sharyn McCrumb, and Deborah Crombe fadedrose May 2012 #2
Hmm. Mysteries not generally my bag with the exception of Dexter/Morse dmallind May 2012 #3
Hey if Pratchett and Rankin are beyond your intelligence you have real problems... dmallind May 2012 #4
Never read either one... Little Star May 2012 #5
Have you read Barbara Kingsolver? Curmudgeoness May 2012 #6
To be honest no. I get the vibe of her as a "cause" writer. Mistaken? dmallind May 2012 #7
Try Kingsolver's THE POISONWOOD BIBLE mainer May 2012 #8
+1 getting old in mke May 2012 #13
Just try her and see what you think. Curmudgeoness May 2012 #11
Will grab the Poisonwood Bible this weekend then. thanks! nt dmallind May 2012 #14
Start with these Lex May 2012 #9
My responses to these may help greatly - see below dmallind May 2012 #10
A touch of the fantastic? getting old in mke May 2012 #12
Don't know her work that well. Any recs? Thanks. nt. dmallind May 2012 #15
The House of the Spirits getting old in mke May 2012 #16
Zorro XemaSab Jun 2012 #17
Three I liked very much... Moe Shinola Jul 2012 #18
Ooh, forgot these... Moe Shinola Jul 2012 #19
I'm currently reading The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Conner Matariki Jul 2012 #20
The best mystery writers go beyond the mystery genre Lydia Leftcoast Jul 2012 #21
That's OK if you're sexist about authors. I'm very much that way about singers/musicians. raccoon Aug 2012 #22
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