If you're looking for great things to read, the Orange Prize list is always a great place to start. I've only read two of these (The Inheritance of Loss and Carry Me Down) and they are both fabulous. I know I'll be trying to work my way through this list in the next few months. Short list will be announced April 17 and the winner on June 6. Last year's list is also worth working through.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate)
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan (Bloomsbury)
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (Faber)
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)
Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson (Solidus)
Over by Margaret Forster (Chatto & Windus)
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger (Picador)
When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers (Canongate)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus)
*The Observations by Jane Harris (Faber)
*Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland (Canongate)
The Girls by Lori Lansens (Virago)
*Alligator by Lisa Moore (Virago)
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street Press)
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Quercus)
Careless by Deborah Robertson (Sceptre)
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert (Heinemann)
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley (Faber)
Digging to America by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)
The Housekeeper by Melanie Wallace (Harvill Secker)
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3 comments:
You haven't read Alligator?!
It's great.
> It's great.
Yeah... I heard that. :)
And, ok ok ok... I just put a hold on it from the public library...
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