Margaret Atwood's Reading List

Booker Prize-winning Canadian novelist (The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake). Frequent essayist on speculative fiction and other writers.

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By the Book: Margaret Atwood (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-11-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Tin Flute

Gabrielle Roy · Buy on Amazon

"This is a gritty story about a working-class girl in Montreal in the wartime '40s who makes the best she can of her meager romantic chances and her meager wardrobe."

Birds of America

Lorrie Moore · Buy on Amazon

Get in Trouble

Kelly Link · 2015 · Buy on Amazon

Favorite books (2022)

Favorite books recommended by Margaret Atwood, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/margaret-atwood-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Pride and Prejudice

adults, who liked anything called a classic. · Buy on Amazon

Donovan’s Brain

scientists – a brain which was trying to take over the world. In addition to colouring my view of politicians, this prepared me for the reading of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Mary Shelley’s Frankens tein , later on.” · Buy on Amazon

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell · Buy on Amazon

The Beet Queen

Louise Erdrich · Buy on Amazon