Liz:
Ten books I read and loved over the last year that I didn’t end up reviewing:
Truth and Beauty (Ann Patchett)
The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
Barkskins (Annie Proulx)
American Philosophy (John Kaag)
The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)
The Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)
Moonglow (Michael Chabon)
The Identicals (Elin Hilderbrand)
A House Without Windows (Nadia Hashimi)
Ten authors who, whenever I see they’ve got a new book out, I race to read it:
Elizabeth Strout
Ann Patchett
Elin Hilderbrand
Margaret Atwood
Jodi Picoult
Annie Proulx
Chris Bohjalian
Jannice Y.K. Lee
Geraldine Brooks
Liane Moriarty
Ten authors I just discovered this year who, because I enjoyed a book they’d written, I plan to read previous books and/or look forward to reading future books:
Peter Stamm
Karen Joy Fowler
Emily St. John Mandel
Kent Haruf
Kristin Hannah
David Mitchell
Anna Pitoniak
J. Ryan Stradal
M.L. Stedman
Nadia Hashimi