Keith's Recommended Book List

Joan Barfoot

"Gaining Ground" (a masterpiece)
"Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch"
"Getting over Edgar"
"Critical Injuries"
"Family News"
"Duet for Three"
"Luck"

Barbara Kingsolver

"The Poisonwood Bible" (a great book)
"Prodigal Summer" (a great book)
"The Bean Tree" and its sequel "Pigs in Heaven"
"Animal Dreams"
"Small Changes"
"Vida"

Marge Piercy

"Woman on the Edge of Time" (a masterpiece)
"Three Women"
and any of her other books...

Carol Shields

"The Stone Diaries" (great..)
"Mary Swann"
"Larry's party"
and any of her other books..

Annie Proulx

"The Shipping News"
and any of her other books...

Alice Munro

"Runaway"
"The Views from Castle Rock" and others.
She writes short stories, but not too short. You can get your teeth into them.
"She is unmatched as an artist of the highly nuanced private lives of modern women."
Rachel Cusk, New Statesman

Elspeth Huxley

"Red Strangers"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper (most unusual...)

Mary Lawson

"The Other Side of the Bridge"
"Crow lake"

Susan Hill

"Strange Meeting"
"The Service of Clouds"

Anita Shreve

Not great books, but always a good read...

Anne Tyler

Not great, but always a good read...

Alice Walker

"Horses Make Landscape Look More Beautiful"
and her novels.

Sue Miller

"Lost in the Forest" and many others.

Marion Husband

"Say you love me"
"Paper Moon"
"The boy I love" and others.

Willa Cather

"My Antonia" and others.

Nawal El Sadawi

"A Daughter of Isis"
"Walking through Fire"

Anne Enright

"The Gathering" and others.

Books by Men

Ian McEwan and William Trevor are usually readable, can't think of any other men at the moment. I'll think about it.....