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    How Reading Changed My Life

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    by Anna Quindlen


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    Anna Quindlen is the author of two bestselling novels, Object Lessons and One True Thing. Her New York Times column "Public and Private  won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of the "Life in the '30s  columns, Living Out Loud, and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After.

    Brief Biography

    Hometown:
    New York, New York
    Date of Birth:
    July 8, 1952
    Place of Birth:
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Education:
    B.A., Barnard College, 1974
    Website:
    http://annaquindlen.net/

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    The Reading Lists from Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life:

    10 Big Thick Wonderful Books that Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (But Aren't Beach Books)

    Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

    Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

    East of Eden by John Steinbeck

    The Forstyte Saga by John Galsworthy

    Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

    Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

    Sophie's Choice by William Styron

    Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon

    Underworld by Don DeLillo

    Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

    10 Non Fiction Books That Help Us Understand the World

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbons

    The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

    Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick

    Lincoln by David Herbert Douglas

    Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

    How We Die by Sherwin Nuland

    The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos

    The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

    The Power Broker by Robert Caro

    10 Books that will Help a Teenager Feel More Human

    Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

    A Separate Peace by John Knowles

    Lost In Place by Mark Salzman

    What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges

    The World According to Garp by John Irving

    Bloodbrothers by Richard Price

    A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

    To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

    The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

    The 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Only Save 10)

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Bleak House by Charles Dickens

    Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

    The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

    The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

    Middlemarch by George Eliot

    Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

    The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats

    The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare

    The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

    Ten Books for a Girl Who is Full of Beans (Or Ought to Be)

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    Julius the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes

    Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace

    Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

    The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

    The BFG by Ronald Dahl

    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

    Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

    Catherine Known As Birdy by Katherine Paterson

    The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

    Ten Mystery Novels I'd Most Like to Find in a Summer Rental

    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James

    Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

    Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

    Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham

    The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre

    10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School Librarian

    The View From Saturday by E.L. Koningsburg

    Frindle by Andrew Clements

    My Daniel by Pan Conrad

    The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick

    Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

    No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

    My Father's Dragon by Ruth Gannett Stiles

    Habibi by Naomi Nye

    Mudpies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls by Marjorie Winslow

    The Story of May by Mordecai Gerstein

    10 Good Book Club Selections

    Fraud by Anita Brookner

    Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

    The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

    The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

    The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

    Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

    Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

    Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

    Eden Close by Anita Shreve

    10 Modern Novels that Made Me Proud to be a Writer

    The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

    White Noise by Don DeLillo

    Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser

    True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne

    The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

    The French Lieutennant's Woman by John Fowles

    Falconer by John Cheever

    The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    The Information by Martin Amis

    Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

    10 of the Books My Exceptionally Well-Read Friend Ben says He's Taken the Most From

    Herzog by Saul Bellow

    Coming Up for Air by George Orwell

    Something of an Achievement by Gwyn Griffin

    Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

    The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats

    Walden by Henry David Thoreau

    The Moon and a Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

    Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

    Heretics by G.K. Chesterton

    The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

    (With addendum: Now I can't believe I settled for that list. What about
    William Maxwell's The Folded Leaf, or Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris? )

    Books I Just Love to Read, And Always Will

    Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

    My Antonia by Willa Cather

    The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    The Group by Mary McCarthy

    The Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov (poetry)

    The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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