Tag: Literary Fiction
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The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
Learn from my mistake, and spread these grim but excellent short stories out over time.
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Loved this, even if it didn’t have the personal impact of Foster
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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
“An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it, one can produce almost anything.”
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Beautifully written, impossible to put down, with an ending full of shocking twists. Probably perfect. You should read it.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
McCullers writes about misfits, loneliness and the need for human connection in a way that fully overwhelmed me.
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
In 1999, this was progressive American fiction. By today’s standards, it’s something less.
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
It took a bunch of extracurricular work, but I managed to make sense of this thing. Calvino is an author that has been on my radar as a challenge. When I saw a couple of his books for cheap at the used bookshop, I couldn’t resist. It wasn’t a difficult read, in the sense that…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
A bunch of short stories that you’ll want to re-read as soon as you finish.
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James by Percival Everett
Everett’s interpretation of the slave character from Huckleberry Finn is subversive, funny, thrilling and thought-provoking.
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Dalila by Jason Donald
As a critique of post-Brexit referendum immigration sentiment in the UK, this book is great. As a Kenyan woman’s perspective written by a white guy, it’s a bit less successful.