Tag: Jonathan Franzen

Tom Robbins

I write to twine ideas and images into big subversive pretzels of life, death, and goofiness—on the chance that, like the Trickster figure in tribal myths, they might help keep the world lively and give it the flexibility to endure. More

Tom Robbins

The 42nd Parallel

The first volume of the “brilliantly original” (Alfred Kazan) U.S.A. trilogy, a landmark of modernism. More

The Shipping News

Highly acclaimed international bestseller; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More

Pilgrim

A finalist for the Giller Prize and a Canadian bestseller that surpassed the author’s own impressive sales records. More

Wolf Hall

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More

Michael Chabon

The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. More

Michael Chabon

The God of Small Things

Winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize, making Roy the first Indian woman to receive the award. More

The Crying of Lot 49

This highly original satire is a classic of postmodern literature. More

The Devil Wears Prada

Sensational behind-the-scenes debut novel about the fashion world and the boss from hell. More

Lionel Shriver

Why I write: To find out what I think. More

Lionel Shriver

Under the Volcano

A landmark of modernism, hailed as “one of the towering novels of this century” (New York Times). More

T. C. Boyle

I read in the way that I breathe, as a necessity of life. More

T. C. Boyle

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera’s postmodern masterwork; named one of the best books of 1984 (New York Times Book Review). More

One Hundred Years of Solitude

This landmark of magical realism sparked a wave of interest in Central and South American literature. More

Bring Up the Bodies

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the first to win as a sequel. More

The Corrections

Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. More

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Irving’s beloved coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished of American classics. More

The Stone Diaries

Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award (Canada) and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More

Tales of the City

First book in Maupin’s acclaimed and groundbreaking series documenting San Francisco’s underground and gay culture. More

The Year of Magical Thinking

Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More

Mary Karr

I read to save my life, to take communion, to enter a community of fellow sufferers and rejoicers. More

Mary Karr

The White Tiger

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More

Jay Onrait

I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More

Jay Onrait

V.

Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for best debut novel in 1963. More

Our Town

Pulitzer Prize–winning drama; hailed by Edward Albee as “The finest play ever written by an American.” More

The Wapshot Chronicle

Winner of the 1958 National Book Award, it established Cheever as a major American novelist. More

Matt Haig

It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More

Matt Haig