Books
At thenovelette.com, we love to read.
Here’s a short list of current or recent reading. Reading groups, please email us with your selections and suggestions.
- Wiseblood – Flannery O’Connor – novel
- Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West – novellas
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – novel
- The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel – Amy Hempel – short stories
- Batting Against Castro – Jim Shepard – short stories
- Watership Down – Richard Adams – novel
- The Bright Forever – Lee Martin – novel
- Case Histories – Kate Atkinson – novel
- Lucille Clifton – Poetry
- Richard Walker – Poetry
- Negotiating With The Dead – Margaret Atwood – essays on writing
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – novel
- Writing With Intent – Margaret Atwood – novel
- Best American Short Stories 2006 – Ann Patchett editor
- The Season of Open Water – Dawn Clifton Tripp – novel
- Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood – semi-connected short stories
- You’ve Got To Read This, Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe – Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard editors
January 17th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I found the Jack Ritchie story, called “The Green Heart,” in a book called “50 Greatest Mystery Stories of All Time” by Otto Penzler. People tell me the story and the movie don’t actually have all that much in common … I am still waiting to read the story and judge for myself.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:27 am
I’m reading the collected short stores of 2006, too! Anne Patchett’s intro alone is worth the price of admission. I loved the Ambush. Am also re-reading slowly and savoring Piano Shop on the left Bank.
KS
April 1st, 2007 at 5:05 pm
My favorite recent read was “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss. This is the whole package - complex characters, great pacing, affecting ending. “Case Histories” by Kate Atkinson is another find, a book that managed to break all the rules and still hook me in.
June 15th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Hi, there. I have written a story that is approximately 25,000 words in length and cannot seem to find a venue for the thing that will pay what I think it is worth.
It is literary ficiton. Not sci-fi. Not romance. Not fantasy. (Hence, my problem, length does not match genre.)
Does anyone have any ideas?