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Reader name: Tamye
Hometown: LaSalle, Ontario
Favorite genre: fiction
Favorite authors: Emma Donoghue, Jodi Picoult, Lisa Genova
Favorite books: Room, My Sister’s Keeper, Left Neglected
Tamye’s three favorite novels are impossible to resist because they couple suspense with a fiction lover’s favorite question: What if this terrible thing actually happened? One author who is, of course, a master of this sort of drama is Anita Shreve. The Pilot’s Wife may be her most famous book (What if your husband died in a plane crash—and it turned out he may have led a double life?); I also like A Change in Altitude. (What if a year-long adventure in Africa turned horribly wrong?)
Another winner is the expertly paced Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, which will surely prompt fierce discussion in any book club. (What if a home birth took a fatal turn—and the midwife was consequently persecuted?)
Finally, you can always count on Sue Miller to provide similar satisfaction and conversation. Her latest, The Lake Shore Limited, is especially good. (What if you planned on leaving your lover on 9/11/2001—the same day he happened to be on an ill-fated airplane?)
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I love fiction, non fiction, memoir, biography! Some of my absolute favorite books include Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; Mockingbird by Charles Shields; Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott (and anything by Anne Lamott); Every Last One by Anna Quindlen; Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever; anything by Ann Patchett; Blue Nights by Joan Didion; About the Author by John Colapinto; The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.
What if you got a blood transfusion and started having the memories of the person who donated your blood? Thanks for the Memories by Cecilia Aherne
Wow….. I loved all three of those books. They are three of my favorite authors. Does Anita Shreve and Sue Miller have anything new coming out this year?
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