Delia Owens's Reading List
Delia Owens returns to “Beloved” every now and then: “One sentence from Toni Morrison can inspire a lifetime of writing.”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Delia Owens (2019)
NYT By the Book column (2019-07-11).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Kathleen Jamie · Buy on Amazon
"Her essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own."
Sebastian Barry · 2005 · Buy on Amazon
"I can't find more poignant descriptive writing anywhere."
Karen Fisher · Buy on Amazon
"I can't find more poignant descriptive writing anywhere."
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
"We need to read it again and again until we never forget the ghosts of slavery. Also, I return to it every now and then for the literature: One sentence from Toni Morrison can inspire a lifetime of writing."
William Faulkner · 1930 · Buy on Amazon
"I read William Faulkner's three major novels of 1930 to 1935 to experience the image of a buzzard 'spraddle-legged, with its wings kind of hunkered out, watching me … like an old baldheaded man.'"
Mohsin Hamid · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"Mohsin Hamid's novels are so engaging, written with language so injectable, you only realize gradually that he's tackling enormous issues and that you're right in the middle of them."
Tommy Orange · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"I admire that he and Tommy Orange confront some of our foremost social problems without dragging us too deeply into the dark."
Aldo Leopold · Buy on Amazon
"Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" was my first book of nature writing and changed my view of the world."
Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon
"Peter Matthiessen's "The Snow Leopard" brought the scientific search for a remote and wild carnivore into a language only the massive Himalayans and one man's search for a soul could transcend."
Janet Fitch · Buy on Amazon
"I am inspired by breathtaking descriptions of nature or place, descriptions that know when to stop, but push a compelling story forward."
Khaled Hosseini · Buy on Amazon
"I am inspired by breathtaking descriptions of nature or place, descriptions that know when to stop, but push a compelling story forward."
Gregory David Roberts · Buy on Amazon
"I choose those with compelling story lines written descriptively. I'm drawn to creative and inspiring language."
Tracy Chevalier · Buy on Amazon
"I choose those with compelling story lines written descriptively. I'm drawn to creative and inspiring language."
Harper Lee · Buy on Amazon
"Scout Finch of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been my favorite heroine because she shows us that it's O.K. to see life's lessons through the eyes of a child. Scout gave me license to write Kya."
Carlo Rovelli · 2014 · Buy on Amazon
"Carlo Rovelli fuses literature and science into a new discipline that takes us to 'the edge of what we know. … And it's breathtaking.'"
Al Gore · Buy on Amazon
"If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth.""