Books read during the BWS (in no particular order):
The Story of Land and Sea, Freemen, The Everlasting, The Weeds, Katy Simpson Smith
Run, Tom Lake, Anne Patchett
Run Me to Earth, The Hive and the Honey, Paul Yoon
The Dark Dark, Samatha Hunt
Corpus Christi, Brett Anthony Johnston
Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman
Agatha of Little Neon, Claire Luchette
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deeshaw Philyaw
The Chateau, So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
A Voice Through a Cloud, Denton Welch
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay
The Outward Room, Millen Brand
Living Like Weasels, Annie Dillard (from Teaching a Stone to Talk)
Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving,
The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
The Letter, W. Somerset Maugham
The Evening of the Holiday, Shirley Hazzard
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
The Wild, Sublime Body, Melissa Febos
The Open, Stephen Crane
Rappaccini’s Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Weekend, Peter Cameron
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Lolly Wollowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Oleana, David Mamet
Light Years, All That Is, A Sport and a Pastime, Dusk and Other Stories, James Salter
In the Cut, Susanna Moore, A Girlhood in Hawai’I, Susanna Moore
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
A Play for the End of the World, JaiChakrabarti
The Years, Annie Ernaux (translated by Alison L. Strayer)
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
On the Night of the Khatam, Jamil Jan Kochai
Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare
Outlines, Arlington Park, Rachel Cusk
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Bowlaway, Thunderstruck and Other Stories, Elizabeth McCracken
Uncle Dania, Anton Chekov
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Ecco
Poor Houdini, Anne Carson
Matrix, Lauren Groff
The Book of Goose, Yiyum Li
Aviary, Deirdre McNamer
King, Queen, Knave; Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
Shy, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny, Max Porter
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
American Desert, Percival Everett
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Emerald City and Other Stories, The Candy Shop, Look at Me, Jennifer Egan
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
The Boys of My Youth, In Zanesville, Festival Days, Jo Ann Beard
My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Another Name for Love, Taymour Soomro
Save the Cat!, Jessica Brody
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss
Writing to Learn, William Zinsser
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King