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Author Appreciation Week: The Later Years

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I love the way literature allows us to examine life. Here are a few authors who through their words have made my world a little bigger. (Again, I’ll try to only include books I haven’t discussed before).
John Knowles
A Separate Peace
Annemarie Selinko

Désirée
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  The Heart of a Woman  Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now  Gather Together in My Name  Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Isabelle Allende
The House of the Spirits   Paula: A Memoir (P.S.)
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)   Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)   The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
Rosamund Pilcher
The Shell Seekers
Sheldon Vanauken
A Severe Mercy
Betsy James
Long Night Dance (The Seeker Chronicles)  Dark Heart (The Seeker Chronicles)  Listening at the Gate (The Seeker Chronicles)
Edith Pargeter
The Heaven Tree Trilogy (The Heaven Tree / The Green Branch / The Scarlet Seed)
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead: A Novel 
Arundhati Roy
God of Small Things
Anne Tyler
The Amateur Marriage: A Novel  Back When We Were Grownups  Ladder of Years: A Novel  Breathing Lessons: A Novel  The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife  The Joy Luck Club Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)  The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Donna Tartt
The Secret History
Annie Proulx
Postcards (Scribner Classics)  Shipping News: A Novel (Scribner Classics)
Zadie Smith
White Teeth: A Novel

What authors helped expand your world later in life?

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  1. Jemi Fraser says

    March 18, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Great list! I actually haven’t read quite a few of these, but I’m putting them on my list. I need more time!! 🙂

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  2. Elana Johnson says

    March 18, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    Oh, man. I have not read a single one of these… Maybe because I’m still reading YA and MG fiction? Yeah, let’s go with that…

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  3. Tracy says

    March 19, 2010 at 12:44 am

    I was mostly a Terry Brooks, Guy Gavriel Kay, Orson Scott Card, John Wyndham gal back in high school. I read lots of other stuff too, but those are the ones that I remember best. I actually read lots more YA now, but still tend to lean toward the ones with a slightly sci-fi/fantasy twist.

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  4. Caroline Starr Rose says

    March 19, 2010 at 1:18 am

    Tracy, I love Ender!

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