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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Well, you know, one year I taught Jane Eyre and Great Expectations in the same year.”
Why: They are still engrossing and powerful.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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“Have you read um mural sparks loitering with intent I have not it's really great but it's the only thing i know about the phenomenon…”
Why: It touches on the mystical phenomenon experienced by writers.
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
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“Well, you know, one year I taught Jane Eyre and Great Expectations in the same year. And Jane Eyre is the greatest representation of female rage ever.”
Why: They are still engrossing, powerful, and say something about our lives.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“I want to start with in Reading Like a Writer, you have this section where you talk about positive models and negative models of books.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
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Named without an opinion attached.
“I mean I guess james joyce's the dead is the all-time great party scene and then there are great party scenes in anna karenina…”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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“that Garcia Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch is one paragraph without paragraph breaks.”
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
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“I mean, Jef Eugenides did it in The Virgin Suicides and Josh Ferris…”
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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