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Anne Tyler's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “A Spool of Blue Thread” says reading her own books “always feels like lying awake in a bedroom I’ve painted myself; the mistakes are so noticeable and so upsetting.”

By the Book: Anne Tyler (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-02-05).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · Buy on Amazon

"Both books drew me in irresistibly, not least because they run contrary to type. In very different ways, both concern themselves more with the world that's been lost than with the world of the future."

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber · Buy on Amazon

"Both books drew me in irresistibly, not least because they run contrary to type."

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home

Nina Stibbe · Buy on Amazon

"It's funny and intelligent and irreverent, and the author keeps confessing the most egregious trespasses without batting an eye. I actually read it twice over."

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868 · Buy on Amazon

"The book I loved most, the one I must have devoured at least a dozen times, was Little Women."

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877 · Buy on Amazon

"For years, I made a point of rereading Anna Karenina every summer. I am still bowled over by its freshness and its immediacy."

The Little House

Virginia Lee Burton · Buy on Amazon

"Who I am today is all because of a picture book given me on my fourth birthday: Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House. Its message about the irreversible passage of time instantly hit home."

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson · Buy on Amazon

"I think I would just send him a gift edition of Bill Watterson's The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — my surefire remedy for heavy spirits."

A Word Child

Iris Murdoch · Buy on Amazon

"Iris Murdoch's A Word Child."

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov · Buy on Amazon

"Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin."

Mrs. Bridge

Evan S. Connell · Buy on Amazon

"Evan Connell's Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge."

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