Books I Love
- Diana Abu-Jaber, Birds of Paradise
- Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman; The Angel of History
- Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina; Trash
- Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum; Case Histories; Emotionally Weird; A God in Ruins; Life After Life.
- Andrea Barrett, Archangel; Ship Fever
- Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
- Amy Bloom, Where the God of Love Hangs Out
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
- Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage; Mothers Tell your Daughters
- Mark Childress, Georgia Bottoms
- Leslie Daniels, Cleaning Nabokov’s House
- André Dubus, III, Dirty Love
- Rhian Ellis, After Life
- Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; What I Didn’t See
- Laura Furman, The Mother Who Stayed
- Amity Gaige, The Folded World; Schroeder
- Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down; In the Almost Dark
- James Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have; The Horned Man; It’s Beginning to Hurt
- Javier Marías, Un corazón tan blanco; Los enamoramientos
- Lola López Mondéjar, Cada noche, cada noche; Mi amor desgraciado
- Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas
- Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members
- Joan Wickersham, The News from Spain
Cynthia’s favorite author quotes (by way of Goodreads)
"How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with loose women among treasure sacks in the holds of pirate ships?..."— Virginia Woolf