Louise Erdrich's Reading List

The author of "The Round House" and, most recently, "LaRose" thinks President Obama "deserves a diverting literary read filled with witchy sex, brutal greed, dark gods and innocence."

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By the Book: Louise Erdrich (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-04-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Known World

Edward P. Jones · 2003 · Buy on Amazon

Winter in the Blood

James Welch · Buy on Amazon

War Dances

Sherman Alexie · Buy on Amazon

Three Day Road

Joseph Boyden · Buy on Amazon

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko · Buy on Amazon

Seven Gothic Tales

Isak Dinesen · Buy on Amazon

"Isak Dinesen's masterworks, "The Deluge at Norderney" and "The Monkey," are so important to me that I keep wearing out the collection they are part of — "Seven Gothic Tales.""

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada · Buy on Amazon

""Every Man Dies Alone," by Hans Fallada, is one of those books."

The Falling Sky

Davi Kopenawa · Buy on Amazon

"It is a perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one's personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds."

Cool for You

Eileen Myles · Buy on Amazon

"She described experiences working in psychiatric hospitals, going to Catholic school, shifting about the universe, with a pained sympathy and hilarious specificity."

Lord of Misrule

Jaimy Gordon · Buy on Amazon

"I think he deserves a diverting literary read filled with witchy sex, brutal greed, dark gods and innocence: "Lord of Misrule," by Jaimy Gordon."

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