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Books make great gifts!
Writing teachers and other writing experts believe that one of the best ways to learn how to write well is to read good writing. So, welcome to my online bookstore of favorite contemporary writers and their novels!
Here you can find novels I've enjoyed and appreciated, all available for purchase online through my association with Amazon.com.
Paul Auster
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Moon Palace |
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Leviathan |
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The Music of Chance--Pen/Faulkner Award, 1991 |
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Oracle Night |
Russell Banks
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Rule of The Bone |
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Affliction--Pen/Faulkner Award, 1990; National Book Critics Circle Award, 1989 |
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Continental Drift |
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The Darling |
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The Sweet Hereafter |
Dave Barry
A novelist? Well, he contends he's a humor writer and not a journalist, "and I'm not making that up!"
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Dave Barry Does Japan |
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Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs |
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Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week |
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Dave Barry Turns 50 |
Philip Caputo
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A Rumor of War (a memoir of his Vietnam experience, not a novel) |
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Indian Country |
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Exiles: Three Short Novels |
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Equation for Evil |
David James Duncan
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The River Why |
John Fowles
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The Magus |
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The Collector |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman |
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A Maggot |
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Daniel Martin |
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Mantissa |
David Guterson
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Snow Falling on Cedars--Pen/Faulkner Award, 1995 |
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Our Lady of the Forest |
Jon Hassler
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North of Hope |
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Simon's Night |
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Dear James |
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A Green Journey |
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Rookery Blues |
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The Dean's List |
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The Love Hunter |
Nick Hornby
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High Fidelity |
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About a Boy |
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How to be Good |
John Irving
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The Cider House Rules |
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The World According to Garp--National Book Award, 1980 |
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The Hotel New Hampshire--National Book Award, 1982 |
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The Water-Method Man |
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A Widow for One Year |
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Setting Free the Bears |
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The 158-Pound Marriage |
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The Fourth Hand |
Toni Morrison--Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993
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Beloved--Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1988; National Book Critics Circle Award, 1987; National Book Award, 1987 |
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Song of Solomon |
Haruki Murakami
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
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Norwegian Wood |
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
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A Wild Sheep Chase |
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Dance, Dance, Dance: A Novel |
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South of the Border, West of the Sun |
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Sputnik Sweetheart--"An agonizing, sweet story about the power and pain of love. ... Immensely deepened by perfect little images that leave much to be filled in by the reader's heart or eye."--The Baltimore Sun |
John Nichols
The novels below are volumes I, II and III of Nichols' New Mexico Trilogy.
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The Milagro Beanfield War |
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The Magic Journey |
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Nirvana Blues |
Tim O'Brien
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The Things They Carried--National Book Critics Circle Award, 1990 |
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In the Lake of the Woods |
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Going After Cacciato--National Book Award, 1979 |
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Northern Lights |
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The Nuclear Age |
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Tomcat in Love |
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July, July |
Tom Robbins
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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Jitterbug Perfume |
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Another Roadside Attraction |
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Skinny Legs and All |
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Still Life with Woodpecker |
Philip Roth
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American Pastoral |
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The Human Stain |
Richard Russo
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Straight Man |
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Nobody's Fool |
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The Risk Pool |
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Empire Falls |
Tim Sandlin
The first three novels below are volumes I, II and III of Sandlin's GroVont Trilogy.
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Skipped Parts |
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Sorrow Floats |
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Social Blunders |
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Honey Don't |
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June 9, 2008.