Nancy Pearl suggested I speak with Misha Stone and David Wright, ace book recommenders from the Seattle Public Library. They read my blog entries on North and South, A Town Like Alice and Middlemarch and came up with this list:
Misha:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
A Summer Birdcage by Margaret Drabble
David:
Anna of the Five Towns and Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
Thank you, Misha and David.
