There's more rain forecast for today, so I think I'll spend part of it reading.This is the time of year when I set up reading lists for the book discussion groups I lead in Montreal-area libraries. You'll find below the more-or-less definitive selection for 2019-2020. Should be some good reading. But seeing them listed, I realize I'd do well to get started on them !
In no particular order they are:
English:
Milkman by Anna Burns
The story hour by Thrity Umrigar
The underground railroad by Colson Whitehead
The only story by Julian Barnes
Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty
Watching you by Lisa Jewel
Where the crawdad sings by Delia Owens
The golden house by Salmon Rushdie
Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine by Gail Honeyman
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Vinegar girl : The Taming of the Shrew retold by Anne Tyler
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
Brother by David Chariandy
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Small Country by Gaêl Faye
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Songs for the Cold of Heart by Éric Dupont (Peter McCambridge, translator)
The Break by Katerena Vermette
American War by Omar El Akkad
Français :
Hemingway, Ernest Pour qui sonne les glas
Lavoie, Marie-Renée Autopsie d'une femme plate
Joffo, Joseph Un sac de billes
Bismuth Nadine Un lien familial
Dupont, Éric La route du lilas
Cognetti, Paolo Huit montagnes
Mabancktou Alain Les cigognes sont immortelles
Fontaine, Naomi Manikanetish
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle La retraite sentimentale
The photo, by the way, was taken a few years ago when I had just published After Surfing Ocean Beach and was doing a mini-tour. The book store, which I think has since closed, was formerly the theatre where my friends and I saw a lot of good films.
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