1yoda1489
I’m doing a secret Santa and the person I’m supposed to pick for likes Literary Fiction. I need some ideas (fast) please. They don’t like dystopian fiction or self help. They also have no books listed. Please help!!!!
2lilisin
No books listed. That's concerning.
Here are a few international options and two lesser read American books which will help in avoiding buying them books they already own.
Stefan Zweig : Chess Story
Mario Vargas Llosa : Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service
Larry McMurtry : Lonesome Dove
Yuko Tsushima : Territory of Light
Martin Luther King Jr : Why We Can't Wait
Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White
Here are a few international options and two lesser read American books which will help in avoiding buying them books they already own.
Stefan Zweig : Chess Story
Mario Vargas Llosa : Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service
Larry McMurtry : Lonesome Dove
Yuko Tsushima : Territory of Light
Martin Luther King Jr : Why We Can't Wait
Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White
4Cecrow
If they're smart, they'll get on here and just tell you, lol.
Literary fiction doesn't suggest classics to me, but some good ideas there from >2 lilisin:
Graham Greene: The Quiet American is his most popular and very good.
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance is a bit devastating (not holiday-ish?) but a penetrating look at India.
Lawrence Durrell: Justine is the start of the Alexandria Quartet, a solid literary series.
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum puts that Dan Brown stuff to shame.
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections is season-appropriate, a dysfunctional family reuniting for the holidays.
Mark Helprin: Winter's Tale is also good for the season.
Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler ... a theme continues!
Elias Canetti: Auto da Fe is fine revenge for so vague a wishlist, lol.
Literary fiction doesn't suggest classics to me, but some good ideas there from >2 lilisin:
Graham Greene: The Quiet American is his most popular and very good.
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance is a bit devastating (not holiday-ish?) but a penetrating look at India.
Lawrence Durrell: Justine is the start of the Alexandria Quartet, a solid literary series.
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum puts that Dan Brown stuff to shame.
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections is season-appropriate, a dysfunctional family reuniting for the holidays.
Mark Helprin: Winter's Tale is also good for the season.
Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler ... a theme continues!
Elias Canetti: Auto da Fe is fine revenge for so vague a wishlist, lol.
5krazy4katz
>1 yoda1489: >2 lilisin: I don't remember it, but my review tells me that I really liked The Woman in White, both the prose and the story. I also apparently like Barbara Kingsolver but I don't have any reviews of her books. I think both authors would be good literary fiction choices.
And thank you to >2 lilisin: and >4 Cecrow:! Perhaps I will read some of your suggestions. I have been having trouble lately motivating myself to read. This has never happened before.
And thank you to >2 lilisin: and >4 Cecrow:! Perhaps I will read some of your suggestions. I have been having trouble lately motivating myself to read. This has never happened before.
6lilisin
>5 krazy4katz:
My list reflects some of my favorites that I find are easily accesible to a wide audience so I do hope you pick some of these up and not only read them, but enjoy them!
My list reflects some of my favorites that I find are easily accesible to a wide audience so I do hope you pick some of these up and not only read them, but enjoy them!
7Cecrow
>5 krazy4katz:, I'd avoid the Canetti unless you relish an uphill battle, but the rest are all fantastic.
