Contemporary Literature that still manages to be literature, instead of movies on paper
John Dalton - Heaven Lake (about a minister in Taiwan and his discoveries about faith; really beautiful) David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (trippy, interconnecting stories...and very oddly written prose takes up the chunk of the middle) David Mitchell - Ghostwritten (slightly less trippy interconnecting stories) Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Orpheus myth meets an alterna-reality with the concept "what if culture had come from the Eastern hemisphere instead of the West" VERY difficult but SO SO SO WONDERUFLLY GOOD) Nabokov - Lolita (if you haven't read this, you have to)
A bit more "beachy":Joanna Hershon - Swimming (lyrical mystery
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Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy Beach Music - Pat Conroy Shogun - James Clavell - super long, but I found it fascinating, and have reread it a bunch of times
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The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver A Prayer For Owen Meany - Irving I know This Much Is True - Lamb A Handmaid's Tale - Atwood Judy Blume's books for adults
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Good In Bed - Jennifer Weiner
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Nora, Nora - Anne Rivers Siddons
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Anne Brashares
The Devil Wears Prada
The Nanny Diaries
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Also, I love anything by David Sedaris (Naked, Dress Your Family in Corderoy and Denim, Holidays on Ice), very funny/strange guy.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Older ones I love are Anne of Green Gables and Little Women/Little Men.
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John Dalton - Heaven Lake (about a minister in Taiwan and his discoveries about faith; really beautiful)
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (trippy, interconnecting stories...and very oddly written prose takes up the chunk of the middle)
David Mitchell - Ghostwritten (slightly less trippy interconnecting stories)
Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Orpheus myth meets an alterna-reality with the concept "what if culture had come from the Eastern hemisphere instead of the West" VERY difficult but SO SO SO WONDERUFLLY GOOD)
Nabokov - Lolita (if you haven't read this, you have to)
A bit more "beachy":Joanna Hershon - Swimming (lyrical mystery ( ... )
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Beach Music - Pat Conroy
Shogun - James Clavell - super long, but I found it fascinating, and have reread it a bunch of times
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The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
A Prayer For Owen Meany - Irving
I know This Much Is True - Lamb
A Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Judy Blume's books for adults
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