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Lorrie Moore's Reading List

"I also admire the ones who are taking a break and not working," says the novelist and story writer, whose "Collected Stories" came out this month.

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By the Book: Lorrie Moore (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-03-26).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Beloved
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
"I reread it last summer after Morrison died to see if it was as great as I recalled, and it was greater."
The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott · Buy on Amazon
"I also read Alice McDermott's terrific "The Ninth Hour," which stretches and coils time in a similar fashion to "Beloved.""
The Dolphin Letters
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"I also recently read the Lowell-Hardwick correspondence, "The Dolphin Letters," which reads like an engrossing epistolary novel from some postwar American Bloomsbury."
Cover of Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · Buy on Amazon
"Hardy is a very cinematic writer and there's nothing the filmmakers did that he didn't think of first."
Cover of The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy · Buy on Amazon
Love
Roddy Doyle · Buy on Amazon
Cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · Buy on Amazon
All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Just Kids
Just Kids
Patti Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Usually books as gifts don't work for me but this one did."

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