piano tuner
Daniel Mason's first novel, fit in alongside his work on malaria along the Burmese-Thai border. Hints of Heart of Darkness, unavoidable what with going upriver into a torpid territory not yet subjugated to treat with an insubordinate; airs of José Saramago that I could have done without, because running dialog altogether in one paragraph is annoying even if you are Saramago, and this author isn't; and Flanders Panel:chess::The Piano Tuner:piano tuning. A real gem of a first novel.
yet another list
Susan is not the last to do this list, and there will probably be respondents after me as well. You are meant to bold the ones you've read, italicize those you haven't, and ? those books you've never heard of, but I dimmed those I've read, brightened those I haven't heard of, and bolded my intendeds. I have no idea whence this list comes: there are 93 titles, which doesn't make much sense, and neither does including Sue Monk Kidd alongside Eliot and Wollstonecraft.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Jane Austen, Emma
Toni Cade Bambara, Salt Eaters
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Simone Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Judy Blume, Are You There God It's Me Margaret
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
Frances Burnett, The Secret Garden
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice From the South
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
Angela Davis, Women, Culture, and Politics
Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
Lois Duncan, I Know What You Did Last Summer
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
Louise Erdrich, Tracks
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Nadine Gordimer, July's People
Edith—Mythology Hamilton,
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
bell Hooks, Bone Black
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road
Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Carolyn Keene, The Nancy Drew Mysteries
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Nella Larsen, Passing
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
Lucy Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Lady Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
Iris Murdoch, Severed Head
Gloria Naylor, Mama Day
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller's Wife
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Katharine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Rachel Ray, 365: No Repeats
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Johanna Spyri, Heidi
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Deborah Tannen, You're Wearing That?
Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
Jane Urquhart, Away
Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar
Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
