Every book the narrator of Want by Lynn Steger Strong references reading. This book got a lot of buzz but I hated it for many reasons that I’m more than happy to elaborate on if you would JUST GIVE ME THE CHANCE. I honestly feel like this reading list encapsulates some of my irritation: I’m super highbrow and super, super sad!
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Gayl Jones, Corregidora
Imre Kertesz, Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
Merce Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves
Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
Claire Lispector, The Passion of G.H.
Henry Tree, Party Going
Dorothy West, The Living is Easy
Gerald Murnane, The Plains
Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter
Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time
Magda Szabo, The Door
Tom McCarthy, Remainder
Jean Rhys, D.H. Lawrence, Colm Toibin, Deborah Eisenberg, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Comyns, Penelope Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Jane Bowles, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf
Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
Louise Erdrich, LaRose
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