Vendela Vida'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 Vendela Vida'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 8 days ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9857 | The Delicate Prey | Paul Bowles | 1950 | American | English | |
| 255 | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 1999 | South African | English | |
| 433 | Play It As It Lays | Joan Didion | 1970 | American | English | |
| 78 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | 1924 | British | English | |
| 2817 | The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | 2003 | Australian | English | |
| 968 | Jesus' Son | Denis Johnson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 10292 | Girl | Jamaica Kincaid | 1978 | Antiguan | English | |
| 99 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 1984 | Czech | Czech | |
| 1983 | The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | 2018 | American | English | |
| 410 | The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 1944 | British | English | |
| 9019 | Love | Hanne Ørstavik | 1997 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 4592 | Conversations With Friends | Sally Rooney | 2017 | Irish | English | |
| 11859 | Highwire Moon | Susan Straight | 2001 | American | English |