Books Recommended by Ursula K. Le Guin

by Austen, Jane

Book - 2012

[Q: Who is your literary crush?] I have never got over Fitzwilliam Darcy, and I never will. (EW) [Q: Who is your literary crush?] I have never got over Fitzwilliam Darcy, and I never will. (EW) Show less

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Mansfield Park

by Austen, Jane

Book - 2011

Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is the least popular of her works. The heroine, Fanny Price, isn’t feisty, fiery, and likable—she’s poor, shy, insecure, intr...Show more Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is the least popular of her works. The heroine, Fanny Price, isn’t feisty, fiery, and likable—she’s poor, shy, insecure, introverted, and awfully law-abiding. But I love her for her courage. Despite shame and contempt, she holds to what she thinks is right. Her story, like the others here, has given me deep pleasure and a whole lot to think about. (The Week) Show less

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Jane Eyre

by Bront©±, Charlotte

Book - 2012

Of Jane Eyre, I just want to say that if you think you know the book because you’ve seen a movie based on it, do think again. (The Week) Of Jane Eyre, I just want to say that if you think you know the book because you’ve seen a movie based on it, do think again. (The Week) Show less

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Silas Marner

by Eliot, George

Downloadable Audiobook - 2011

Silas Marner was probably on the 1945 high school curriculum because it was short and not about sex. I hated it—didn’t have a clue what it was about. Elio...Show more Silas Marner was probably on the 1945 high school curriculum because it was short and not about sex. I hated it—didn’t have a clue what it was about. Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) writes with a dry, adult humor and depth of experience of pain I could only appreciate when I finally finished growing up. (The Week) Show less

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Doctor Zhivago

by Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

Book - 1991

[Q: Who is your literary hero?] Yuri, in Doctor Zhivago. But I think that’s partly because the author, Boris Pasternak, is a literary hero to me, for his quiet, subtle absolute resistance to tyranny. (EW) [Q: Who is your literary hero?] Yuri, in Doctor Zhivago. But I think that’s partly because the author, Boris Pasternak, is a literary hero to me, for his quiet, subtle absolute resistance to tyranny. (EW) Show less

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Book - 1995

Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be, today, the most misunderstood, misread American novel. I hope its vitality, generosity, and human warmth will carry it on past this period of prejudice and eclipse. (The Week) Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be, today, the most misunderstood, misread American novel. I hope its vitality, generosity, and human warmth will carry it on past this period of prejudice and eclipse. (The Week) Show less

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The Name of the Wind

by Rothfuss, Patrick

Book - 2007

It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing not only with the kind of accuracy of language absolutely essential to fantasy-making, but wit...Show more It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing not only with the kind of accuracy of language absolutely essential to fantasy-making, but with real music in the words as well. Wherever Pat Rothfuss goes with the big story that begins with The Name of the Wind, he’ll carry us with him as a good singer carries us through a song. (Blurb) Show less

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The Lord of the Rings

by Tolkien, J. R. R.

Book - 2005

I always cry at the end of The Lord of the Rings when Sam says, “Well, I’m back.” (EW) I always cry at the end of The Lord of the Rings when Sam says, “Well, I’m back.” (EW) Show less

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Little Big Man

A Novel

by Berger, Thomas

Book - 1989

Like Mark Twain, Berger has a pitch-perfect ear for how Americans talk—and think. And like Mark Twain he can ruthlessly indict human stupidity and bigotry while never losing his temper, and being really, really funny. (Source) Like Mark Twain, Berger has a pitch-perfect ear for how Americans talk—and think. And like Mark Twain he can ruthlessly indict human stupidity and bigotry while never losing his temper, and being really, really funny. (Source) Show less

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Gormenghast

by Peake, Mervyn

Downloadable Audiobook - 2011

[In answer to “Which fantasy novels do you consider the best of the genre?”] (NYT) [In answer to “Which fantasy novels do you consider the best of the genre?”] (NYT) Show less

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

A Novel

by Chabon, Michael

eBook - 2008

Even better the second time. (EW) Even better the second time. (EW) Show less

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Blindness

by Saramago, José

eBook - 1999

Blindness scared me to death when I started it, but it rises wonderfully out of darkness into the light. Seeing goes the other way and is a very frightening book. Blindness scared me to death when I started it, but it rises wonderfully out of darkness into the light. Seeing goes the other way and is a very frightening book. Show less

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Seeing

by Saramago, José

eBook - 2007

Blindness scared me to death when I started it, but it rises wonderfully out of darkness into the light. Seeing goes the other way and is a very frightening book. Blindness scared me to death when I started it, but it rises wonderfully out of darkness into the light. Seeing goes the other way and is a very frightening book. Show less

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The Cave

by Saramago, José

Book - 2002

A troubling parable of consumerism, a vision of the Ultimate Mall. The main characters are vivid, likable, ordinary people, which is rare in parables. The dog is great. All Saramago’s dogs are great. A troubling parable of consumerism, a vision of the Ultimate Mall. The main characters are vivid, likable, ordinary people, which is rare in parables. The dog is great. All Saramago’s dogs are great. Show less

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Skloot, Rebecca

Book - 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings together scientific and medical research (and hypocrisy), the biography of an almost invisibly elusive black w...Show more The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings together scientific and medical research (and hypocrisy), the biography of an almost invisibly elusive black woman, the exposure of an act of exploitation, racism and social injustice, and the writer’s own deeply respectful involvement with the people from whom she won this absorbing, troubling, wonderfully told story. (Source) Show less

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The Man in the High Castle

by Dick, Philip K

Book - 2015

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Roadside Picnic

by Struga?t?ski?i, Arkadi?i Natanovich

eBook - 2012

Lively, racy, and likable…complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated. (Blurb) Lively, racy, and likable…complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated. (Blurb) Show less

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Binti

The Night Masquerade

by Okorafor, Nnedi

Book - 2018

There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor‘s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. (Blurb) There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor‘s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. (Blurb) Show less

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