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Barbara’s Desert Island Writers

seascapeA complete list would be too long to be useful. I have therefore used several additional criteria in creating the list below. The first is that the authors have written multiple books that I’ve read and admired. The second is that their books repay multiple readings. And the third is immunity from the periodic purges that thin out my overflowing library.

These are my desert-island writers, the ones I can’t imagine doing without. Other than that, I can’t think what they have in common, for they span styles and centuries with reckless abandon.

Short Stories by:

•Amy Bloom
•Raymond Carver
•Deborah Eisenberg
•Ernest Hemmingway
•Katherine Mansfield
•Alice Munro
•Dorothy Parker
•Tobias Wolff
 

Novels by:

•Jane Austen
•Russell Banks
•Pat Barker
•James Lee Burke
•Ivy Compton-Burnett
•Michael Cunningham
•Pete Dexter
•E.M. Foster
•Jane Gardam
•Henry Green
•Graham Greene
•Dashiell Hammett
•Ron Hansen, esp. ATTICUS
•Patricia Highsmith
•Alice Hoffman
•John Irving
•P.D. James
•Barbara Kingsolver, esp. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
•John LeCarre, the Smiley books
•Chang-Rae Lee
•Dennis Lehane
•Elinor Lipman
•Ed McBain
•Alice McDermott
•Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins’ mysteries
•Annie Proulx
•Dorothy Sayers
•Jane Smiley
•Sylvia Townsend-Warner
•Barry Unsworth
•John Updike, esp. the RABBIT TRILOGY
 

Children's & YA Books:

•C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books
•Madeleine L’Engle
•Philip Pullman
•J.K. Rowling
 

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