Roxana Robinson's Reading List
At the end of the Wesleyan Writers Conference last week, the novelist Roxana Robinson gave us a recommended reading list, commenting: "If you haven't read all of them already, I envy you your future." I haven't read all of them (or even most of them), but given that she was teaching us about how to reveal character through dialogue, description and action, I'm assuming that's what their main strength is.
Here's the list, alphabetical by author:
Here's the list, alphabetical by author:
- Barker, World War I Trilogy:
- The Ghost Road
- Regeneration
- The Eye in the Door
- Bowen, Death of the Heart
- Coetzee, Disgrace
- Chekhov, Short Stories
- Cunningham, The Hours
- Green, Loving
- Hazzard, Transit of Venus
- Mann, Budenbrucks
- McEwan, Saturday
- Munroe, Runaway
- Roth,The Radetsky March
- Sabold, The Emigrants
- Schlink, The Reader
- Schwartz,Disturbances in the Field
- Scott, The Raj Quartet
- Tolstoy, Anna Karennina
- Trevor, Fools of Fortune
- Updike, the Rabbit Quartet