Books in the Bag...

Julie's Recommended Reads for this month:

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
Heresy by S.J. Parris
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi by Elif Shafak
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
The Infinities by John Banville









CLASSIC PAIRINGS

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee with The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson with Dante's Inferno
What Happened to Anna K by Irina Reyn with Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff with The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Gathering by Anne Enright with The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty or As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Trespass by Valerie Martin with Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud with War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa with Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander with The Trial by Franz Kafka or The Nose by Nikolai Gogol


Julie's Past Recommended Reads:

Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
Aesop's Mirror by Maryalice Huggins
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Blame by Michelle Huneven
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
Love and Summer by William Trevor

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Fool by Christopher Moore
Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Delicate Edible Birds and other Stories by Lauren Groff
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Little Book by Selden Edwards
Who by Fire by Diana Spechler
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Indignation by Philip Roth
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

America America by Ethan Canin
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Home by Marilynne Robinson
What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

The God of War by Marisa Silver
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus IIIThe Great Man by Kate Christensen
The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Visible World by Mark Slouka


Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
And The Word Was by Bruce Bauman
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips


The Collection by Gioia Diliberto
The Savior by Eugene Drucker
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Run by Ann Patchett
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson
The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Not Me by Michael Lavigne
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Madonna's of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan