1) Cormac McCarthy
I thought I'd try Blood Meridian. "An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion..."
2) Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea"Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out ..." (Goodreads Description)
3) Terry Tempest Williams
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place "In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by...."(Goodreads Description)
4)Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake "Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future...." (Goodreads Description)5) Octavia Butler
Wild Seed "Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears no one until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. She fears no one until she meets Doro...." (Goodreads Description)
6) Wilkie Collins
Woman in White 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'7) E.M. Forster
Howard's End "Howard's End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct, and personal relationships in turn-of-the-century England." (Goodreads Description)
8) Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove "A love story, an
adventure, an American epic, LONESOME DOVE embraces all the West --
legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and
settlers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience,
the most enduring of our national myths." (Goodreads Description) 9) Joyce Carol Oates
Bellefleur "A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythical Lake Noir." (Goodreads Description)
10) Virginia Woolf
To the Lighhouse "The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland." (Goodreads Description)So what well known authors would you like to catch up with? If you are a particular fan of any of the authors on my list, do you have any advice on which of there books to start with?
