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Allan Gurganus's Reading List

“My late father considered the Bible the inerrant Word of God ghostwritten by a single privileged eyewitness from creation to revelation,” says the author of “The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus” and five other books. “I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. And yet...”

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By the Book: Allan Gurganus (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-01-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Elizabeth Spencer · Buy on Amazon
"Elizabeth Spencer's 1956 masterwork is set in combustible Mississippi during the civil rights era. A racist crime galvanizes every level of society, prophesying today's overdue ethnic reckoning."
Molly Keane · Buy on Amazon
"Good Behavior presents a character whose own strict Christian code wreaks havoc on all those around her. Hilarious and sinister."
Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 · Buy on Amazon
"My first writing teacher, Grace Paley, gave me her very own dog-eared copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Cover of Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon
"For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels: Great Expectations, To the Lighthouse, Middlemarch."
Cover of To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · Buy on Amazon
"For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels."
Cover of Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon
"For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels."
Cover of The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · Buy on Amazon
"For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels."
Cover of The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970 · Buy on Amazon
"For no-weight-gain inspiration, I reread aloud the first chapters of certain favorite novels."
Cover of Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · Buy on Amazon
"I keep going back to childhood favorites like the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped."

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