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Jeanette Winterson's Reading List

“To me, a proper dictionary is a book of spells,” says the novelist, whose most recent book is “Frankissstein.”

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By the Book: Jeanette Winterson (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-09-26).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Collected Poems
Carol Ann Duffy · Buy on Amazon
"Poetry is a wonderful sedative because it conjures up images and emotions without a story."
Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Light, a memoir that reads like poetry."
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
Ted Hughes · Buy on Amazon
"Reading it is like a very long conversation with an old friend trying to understand something magnificent. It is also, possibly, utterly bonkers."
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie · Buy on Amazon
"I thought Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire — a version of Antigone for the current world of paranoia, fake politics and terrorism — was so good."
Cover of Quichotte
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie · 2019 · Buy on Amazon
"I just read Salman Rushdie's Quichotte, a loose remake of Don Quixote. It's a terrific read."
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez · Buy on Amazon
"Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women is no rant, just facts and figures: voice recognition software is generally set to a male pitch — and 70 percent more likely to recognize the male than the female voice."

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