- Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits
- A. S. Byatt, Possession
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (and then read her short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu)
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and others
- Julian Barnes, England, England
- Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
- Roddy Doyle, the Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, & The Van
- Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
- Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
- Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and sequels
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and others
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
- Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and sequels
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (especially in the original French)
- Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
- Graham Swift, Waterland
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (short story collection)
- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
- John Banville, The Untouchable
- Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
- Nadine Gordimer, My Son’s Story
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- John Fowles, A Maggot
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret
- Nadine Gordimer, The Pick-Up
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim
- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked
- Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and sequels
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and others
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
- E. M. Forster, Howards End and A Passage to India
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando
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Hi. Lovely site. It’s a lot of work doing a blog. I tried it. I’m a nurse-midwife who no longer delivers babies but still does early OB and tons of Gyn from teens to menopause…many of my patients are now in their 40s. I think you’d like my books. Arms Wide Open: A Midiwife’s Journey (Beacon Press, Boston) and The Blue Cotton Gown. (same) Do you ever do reviews? Obviously you like to read. Let me know; I can ask my editor to send you a copy. You can read more about me and my books at my website. peace. Patsy (Patricia) Harman
Hi, Patsy. I do review books (you can see my reviews here if you’re interested). Your books are on my radar–I know others in my community have enjoyed them–and eventually I’ll check one out from our public library. Thanks for stopping by!
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