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What You're Reading — Part 2!
Ever read those surveys saying Americans aren’t reading much anymore? Especially fiction? Well, someone is buying all these books that are spilling out of America’s publishing houses — and here in the Upper Midwest, we’re going above and beyond our readerly duty.
Last week, I shared 10 titles that you'd read and loved and this week I have 10 more. This ought to set you up nicely for that crabby uncle you’ve never been able to find a gift for!
Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” made many “Best of” lists this year — which is astonishing considering it followed his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Underground Railroad.” Whitehead’s curiosity and powerful prose makes both of these novels must-reads.
Lori told us that she’d caught Sarah Stonich’s “Laurentian Divide” and admired it. Stonich, who lives and writes in Minnesota, won the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. By the way, she’s been reading “Dracula.”
And while we’re on Minnesota writers, MPR News journalist Mark Zdechlik was at my desk the other day raving about William Kent Krueger’s “This Tender Land.” It’s a departure from his Cork O’Connor series, as the novel follows the perilous river journey of four children who are escaping abuse at an Indian school and setting off in a canoe downriver.
While we’re on the water, Peter Heller’s “The River” made some of your best-of-summer reading lists and I was surprised about how much I liked this one too. It’s a suspenseful, lyrical novel about friendship and sacrifice. Check out my interview with Heller from last March.
Two friends at the gym mentioned Elizabeth Gilbert’s “City of Girls” and a family member raved about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Water Dancer.”
Megan tweeted in to say she loved Sally Rooney’s “Normal People.” I read the novel after Stephanie Curtis recommended it and then immediately read Rooney’s other novel, “Conversations with Friends.” Don’t miss it!
Sue tweeted in to say the writing in Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive, Again” was “phenomenal.” Thank you, Sue! That novel has gone back to the top of my to-be-read list.
And one more novel that came by way of Thread and podcast producer Tracy Mumford — whose recommendations are golden. Tracy and I marveled over the imaginative story told in Julia Phillips’ “Disappearing Earth.”
~Kerri Miller |
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