New books from some of our BIG authors:
- Richard Flanagan's The narrow road to the deep north
- Roger McDonald's The following
- Alex Miller's Coal creek
- Christos Tsiolkas' Barracuda
- Alexis Wright's The swan book
- Tim Winton's Eyrie
Booker Prize Winner for 2013:
- Eleanor Catton's The luminaries
- Hannah Kent's Burial rites
- Aminatta Forna's The Hired Man (set in modern Croatia with an English family renovating a house in a village previously affected by the recent war) or The Memory of Love (set in Sierra Leone, the birthplace of the author's father)
- Mohsin Hamad's The reluctant fundamentalist
- Lloyd Jones' A history of silence
- Anthony Marra's A constellation of vital phenomena
- Ann Patchett's Bel Canto (won the 2002 Orange Prize)
- JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (dark modern Britain, deeply insightful)
- Amy Waldman's The submission
- Wallace Stegner's Crossing to safety
Translated book (or book in English from a non-English background writer): I think it would be good to try to do at least one non-anglo book each year - but that may just be me
- Jonas Jonasson's The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared
Non-fiction:
- Janet Butler's Kitty's war
- Nicholas Carr's The shallows
- Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad
And of course there are some books under Suggestions in the sidebar.
3 comments:
Some that I've thoroughly enjoyed lately:
Anything by Aminatta Forna but loved The Hired Man (set in modern Croatia with an English family renovating a house in a village previously affected by the recent war); and The Memory of Love (set in Sierra Leone, the birthplace of the author's father)
Also just finished The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling. Dark modern Britain - could be any Western country; deeply insightful.
As for a translation, The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
And thoroughly engrossed by Hannah Kent's Burial Rites.
Marie Zuvich
Thanks Marie --- Aminatta! That's it. I kept thinking Amrita. These are great additions to our list.
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I've had trouble posting on Minerva Reads and I'm tired so here are my comments on 2014 list.
The entire list is awesome and it would make for a perfect year of reading.
My only suggestion for the list would be the new Lloyd Jones - A History of Silence. I listened to him on Richard Fiedler when I was sick and the story sounds incredible.
Luminaries would have to be the Christmas read as it is over 800 pages. Every year I allocate a much anticipated read to a Boxing Day start and Luminaries is this year's.
Alex Miller's Coal Creek is very good and I'm half way through.
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