This section of my web site is devoted to recommendations and brief reviews of novels, memoir, some other literary genres, and film. I am addicted to novels and movies-which of course often overlap. I'll include any good TV (yes, there is some), plus DVDs and audio books.
My Favorite Novels:
Modern Classics: these to me are the great American novels:To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Contemporary Fiction:
The Civil Wars, by Rosellen Brown
Before and After, by Rosellen Brown
Disturbances in the Field, by Lynn Sharon Schwartz
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen
Kyra, by Carol Gilligan
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
Song Not Sung, by James McBride
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
Speculative Fiction (SciFi/ Fantasy):
The Fall of the Sparrow, (author unknown)
Dawn, by Octavia Butler
Grass, by Sherri Tepper
The Gate to Women's Country, by Sherri Tepper
Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin
World as Ocean, (author unknown)
Dune, by Frank Herbert
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula LeGuin
Mystery/ Detective/ Crime Fiction:
all works by Dorothy Sayers
all works by P.D. James
all works by Sue Grafton
all works by Nevada Barr
all works by Ruth Rendell (aka Barbra Vine)
all works by Colin Dexter
The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple
Mystic River, by Dennis LeHane
Memoir:
All Over But the Shouting, by Rick Bragg
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
The Color of Water, by James McBride
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books, by Azar Natisi
Tears of the Desert: a Memoir of Survival n Darfur, by Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis
Biography:
Savage Beauty, by Nancy Mitford
Zelda, by Nancy Mitford
James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Likfe of Alice B. Sheldon, by Julie Philips
Autobiography:
What Falls Away, by Mia Farrow
Great Television:
British Series:Prime Suspect
Inspector Morse
Brideshead Revisited
The Jewel in the Crown
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Foyle's War
The House of Eliot
Cracker
Midsomer Murders
Dashiel and Pascoe
The Cazalets
Piece of Cake
HBO/ Showtime Series:
Big Love
The Riches
The L Word
Network Series:
Jericho
Brothers and Sisters
Jeremiah
