Siri Hustvedt'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), 13 Books
These are Siri Hustvedt'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 11 days ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 353 | Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 | American | English | |
| 269 | Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 1936 | American | English | |
| 15 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | British | English | |
| 2242 | Milkman | Anna Burns | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 47 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1849 | British | English | |
| 28 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | British | English | |
| 362 | Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor | 1952 | American | English | |
| 2165 | The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9367 | Maybe Esther | Katja Petrowskaja | 2014 | Ukrainian | German | |
| 6686 | Pain | Zeruya Shalev | 2015 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 217 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 1905 | American | English | |
| 27 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | British | English | |
| 13971 | Book Of Mutter | Kate Zambreno | 2017 | American | English |