Elin Hilderbrand's Reading List

The author of "The Identicals" says that for a literary dinner party, she would invite J.D. Salinger, John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor: "I'm serving very cold Veuve Clicquot and a bowl of mixed nuts."

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By the Book: Elin Hilderbrand (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-06-08).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Alice & Oliver

Charles Bock · Buy on Amazon

"It's about life and death and love and parenting. It has possibly the most morally complex plot twist I've ever encountered in literature. I sobbed. Sobbed! My heart broke so that I could feel the pieces rattling in my chest."

Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe · Buy on Amazon

"I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life, marked so many pages or simply marveled at how funny adults seem to children."

Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley · Buy on Amazon

May We Be Forgiven

A. M. Homes · Buy on Amazon

"Let's say all of Homes's work has a similar strain, but this is by far her masterpiece. Sheer brilliance."

The Riders

Tim Winton · Buy on Amazon

"Tim Winton is a novelist from Western Australia, which is why you've never heard of him, and he is, hands down, my favorite writer of all time."

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton · Buy on Amazon

"Tim Winton is a novelist from Western Australia, which is why you've never heard of him, and he is, hands down, my favorite writer of all time. This novel, plus "Cloudstreet" and "Dirt Music," are works of extreme genius."

Dirt Music

Tim Winton · 2001 · Buy on Amazon

"This novel, plus "Cloudstreet" and "Dirt Music," are works of extreme genius."

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