Jane Hirshfield's Book Choices from "The Writer's Library"
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Book), 8 Books
These are Jane Hirshfield's book choices from the interview with him in the book "The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives" by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site 1 day ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1315 | Voices from Chernobyl | Svetlana Alexievich | 1997 | Belarusian | Russian | |
| 749 | The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1963 | American | English | |
| 4232 | Mariette In Ecstasy | Ron Hansen | 1991 | American | English | |
| 14078 | Deaf Republic | Ilya Kaminsky | 2019 | American | English | |
| 11305 | The Simple Truth | Philip Levine | 1994 | American | English | |
| 260 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 1977 | American | English | |
| 13771 | The Sunken Cathedral | Kate Walbert | 2015 | American | English | |
| 102 | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | 1952 | American | English |