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Lionel Shriver's Reading List

“The warts-and-all version is almost always a disappointment, and they risk a retroactive taint,” says the novelist, whose forthcoming book is “Should We Stay or Should We Go.”

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By the Book: Lionel Shriver (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-05-27).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles · Buy on Amazon
"I raced through Amor Towles's Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow back to back. The prose style in both is a delight: elegant, clean, crisp and dry, like a good Italian white."
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · Buy on Amazon
"I raced through Amor Towles's Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow back to back. The prose style in both is a delight: elegant, clean, crisp and dry, like a good Italian white."
As Meat Loves Salt
Maria McCann · Buy on Amazon
"Bowled over by Maria McCann's 2001 historical novel As Meat Loves Salt, I made its promotion something of a personal cause celebre."
The Forgiven
Lawrence Osborne · Buy on Amazon
"I fiercely touted the masterly clash-of-civilizations novel The Forgiven in 2012, when its author, Lawrence Osborne, was underacknowledged."
Everyman
Philip Roth · Buy on Amazon
"Of the Roth novels that take on the indignities of aging, my favorite is the slender Everyman, which punches above its page length."
The Spare Room
Helen Garner · Buy on Amazon
"The Australian Helen Garner wrote about the frustrations of living with the terminally ill in The Spare Room, about a friend with cancer who moves in with the protagonist."
Have the Men Had Enough?
Margaret Forster · Buy on Amazon
"Margaret Forster's eloquent and sometimes comedic Have the Men Had Enough? is about a live-in grandmother's deteriorating dementia."
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor · Buy on Amazon
"One of those rare perfect gems of a book, it's funny as well as heartbreaking."
The Tortilla Curtain
T. C. Boyle · Buy on Amazon
"T. C. Boyle took on both sides of the immigration issue in The Tortilla Curtain."

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