Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Adichie Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck The Cry of the Go-Away Bird - Andrea Eames North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell (similar to Jane Austen, but while I just can't get into Austen I adore Gaskell, who's also much funnier though this isn't one of her humorous ones.) Antigonick - Anne Carson Black Swan Green – David Mitchell (definitely my favorite recent coming of age story) The Secret River - Kate Grenville The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger (maybe. It's quite dark and rather odd, sort of coming of age plus a bit of supernatural business, but in a not-too-annoying way.) My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece - Annabel Pitcher (this had some issues, but all in all was an excellent book, I think it's technically aimed at young adults but could easily go in the adult section, I feel.)
These are mostly sort of random, but I think all fit at least one of the likes you mentioned. I also just have a great love for both Naguib Mahfouz and Pearl S. Buck. Sometimes I see The Good Earth being assigned as summer reading to high schoolers and then they hate it because they're teenagers with little world knowledge or experience and or patience with history. So I try to get people who read it too young to read it again.
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Date: 2013-01-10 05:41 pm (UTC)Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Cry of the Go-Away Bird - Andrea Eames
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell (similar to Jane Austen, but while I just can't get into Austen I adore Gaskell, who's also much funnier though this isn't one of her humorous ones.)
Antigonick - Anne Carson
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell (definitely my favorite recent coming of age story)
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger (maybe. It's quite dark and rather odd, sort of coming of age plus a bit of supernatural business, but in a not-too-annoying way.)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece - Annabel Pitcher (this had some issues, but all in all was an excellent book, I think it's technically aimed at young adults but could easily go in the adult section, I feel.)
These are mostly sort of random, but I think all fit at least one of the likes you mentioned. I also just have a great love for both Naguib Mahfouz and Pearl S. Buck. Sometimes I see The Good Earth being assigned as summer reading to high schoolers and then they hate it because they're teenagers with little world knowledge or experience and or patience with history. So I try to get people who read it too young to read it again.