I’ve only read one, A Mercy by Toni Morrison. Have you read any, and can you recommend them?
Starred titles are those I’m most interested in reading.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 (official website)
- Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying
- Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress
- Lissa Evans, Their Finest Hour and a Half (not yet available in the US)
- Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots
- Ellen Feldman, Scottsboro: A Novel
- Laura Fish, Strange Music
- V.V. Ganeshananthan, Love Marriage
- *Allegra Goodman, Intuition
- Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness
- Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
- Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog
- Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox’s Birthday
- Toni Morrison, A Mercy (my review)
- Gina Ochsner, The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (not yet available in the US)
- *Marilynne Robinson, Home
- *Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is the Whole Day
- Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
- Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
- *Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans
- Ann Weisgarber, Personal History of Rachel DuPree
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. Blech. I had to read it in high school, and so far it is the only one I can think of that I just had to force myself through. Yuck.
