Books in the Bag...

Julie's Recommended Reads for this month:

The Little Book by Selden Edwards
Who by Fire by Diana Spechler
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A Mercy by Toni Morrisson
Indignation by Philip Roth
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner








CLASSIC PAIRINGS

What Happened to Anna K by Irina Reyn with Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff with The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Gathering by Anne Enright with The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty or As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Trespass by Valerie Martin with Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud with War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa with Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander with The Trial by Franz Kafka or The Nose by Nikolai Gogol


Julie's Past Recommended Reads:

America America by Ethan Canin
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Home by Marilynne Robinson
What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

The God of War by Marisa Silver
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus IIIThe Great Man by Kate Christensen
The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Visible World by Mark Slouka


Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
And The Word Was by Bruce Bauman
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips


The Collection by Gioia Diliberto
The Savior by Eugene Drucker
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Run by Ann Patchett
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson
The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Not Me by Michael Lavigne
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Madonna's of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan