Anna Quindlen's Reading List
The author, most recently, of “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake” considers the term “experimental fiction” to be a synonym for “Give me a break.”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Anna Quindlen (2013)
NYT By the Book column (2013-04-18).
Source: www.nytimes.com
George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon
"That is so exactly like being asked which is your favorite child. 'Middlemarch,' because I think of it as perfection, although I am not as enamored of Eliot’s other work?"
Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon
"'Bleak House,' because I’ve learned so much from all of Dickens?"
Jane Austen · 1813 · Buy on Amazon
"'Pride and Prejudice,' because I’m thoroughly satisfied every time I finish?"
Katherine Boo · Buy on Amazon
"It would be impossible to answer that question at this moment without starting with Kate Boo’s 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers,' which is flawless. When I was on book tour last year I talked about it more than my own book."
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · Buy on Amazon
"Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s 'Random Family' is one of the best books I’ve ever read about what it’s like to be poor in America."
Julia Keller · Buy on Amazon
"Last year Julia Keller, who was at The Chicago Tribune, published a mystery set in West Virginia called 'A Killing in the Hills.' It made me want to read her next one."
Georgette Heyer · Buy on Amazon
"Literary snobbery has it that Heyer wrote standard-issue bodice rippers, but the truth is, her Regency novels are well-crafted escapism, potato chips for the soul. If you liked 'Downton Abbey,' you will love Georgette Heyer."
Yeats · Buy on Amazon
"I have many poetry collections — that’s my version of self-help. Yeats, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin."
Robert Lowell · Buy on Amazon
"I have many poetry collections — that’s my version of self-help. Yeats, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin."
W. S. Merwin · Buy on Amazon
"I have many poetry collections — that’s my version of self-help. Yeats, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin."
Raymond Carver · Buy on Amazon
"Most of my books have a poem as an epigram to guide me; the most recent one starts with 'Late Fragment,' the poem Raymond Carver has on his headstone."
Christopher Krovatin · Buy on Amazon
"One of the first copies of 'Heavy Metal and You,' by Christopher Krovatin."
David Halberstam · Buy on Amazon
"'The Best and the Brightest,' by David Halberstam. Smart people make bad decisions about policy and then compound them by refusing to admit they were wrong."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"She is the person who introduced me to 'A Girl of the Limberlost,' 'Anne of Green Gables' and the Betsy-Tacy series."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"She is the person who introduced me to 'A Girl of the Limberlost,' 'Anne of Green Gables' and the Betsy-Tacy series."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"She is the person who introduced me to 'A Girl of the Limberlost,' 'Anne of Green Gables' and the Betsy-Tacy series."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Jo March in 'Little Women.' She wanted to be a writer, she became a writer. She stopped caring that she wasn’t pretty. She sold her hair to send her mother to visit their father during the Civil War."