It was true that The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California was now my bible, but The Dream of a Common Language was my religion. Thanks for helping us pay the bills! ", It's probably not surprising that Game of Thrones author George R.R. Cookie Notice For the second documentary, The Road to Manderley, director Rick Stein set off in search of the author's world in Cornwall. Recommend an author or series who isn't already on the site and we'll add them: If you don't find the book or author you're looking for in the first page of results the chances are it's because it is not one that we have featured. Author of the Myron Bolitar series and some great thriller novels. If that sounds like something you'd want to check out, you can read it for free here. "But they were nice girls and I understood them. The film, which stars Lily James (Downtown Abbey) and Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) arrives on Netflix on October 21, 2020. When appropriate, books are also submitted to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. In honor of the publication of her latest book, Dis Mem Ber in June 2017, Oates also shared her current reading list with The Week. If you’re just in the mood to express your love of all things Mental Floss, you can also get our darling little logo on phone cases, tote bags, mugs, baby bibs, and more. Beverly Cleary. When the author of the bestselling memoir Wild set off on her journey up the Pacific Coast Trail, she only had room to take two books. Reference List: Author/Authors. If there is an author you are looking for that we don’t have then please send them to us via the bottom right of the site – there’s a “Recommendations” section there and we’ll add that author usually within a week of your request. During an interview with a French television station in the 1950s, the Lolita author—who wrote all of his own books on note cards, which were "gradually copied, expanded, and rearranged until they [became his novels]," according to The Paris Review—shared a list of what he considered to be great literature: James Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Andrei Bely's Petersburg, and "the first half of Proust's fairy tale, In Search of Lost Time.". All of her books are illustrated mixing soft, dreamy colors with strong graphic images. Bradbury's lyrical depiction of growing up in the Midwest in a long-ago time, a time that probably never even existed, is the kind of beautiful nostalgia few authors have achieved. Sitemap. But just like Manderley is forever lost to Mrs de Winter in a fire, du Maurier was forced to move out of Menabilly in 1969. So if you’re looking for Stephen King you’d look under “K”. Are we missing something? by Rebecca Morris | May 22, 2020. It was the first book I bought for my daughter's library when she was born.". Our full A-Z list of authors covered by the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice In 2011, a volume of the author's letters from 1941 to 1956 was published, giving the world a glimpse into his friendships and reading habits. Some feminist critics suggest du Maurier intended for Maxim de Winter to be the real villain—the controlling husband who not only murders Rebecca when she refuses to play the obedient wife, but also oppresses and alienates the second Mrs de Winter, marrying her after the most unromantic of proposals: “I am asking you to marry me, you fool.”. As Margaret Forster points out in her 1993 biography, du Maurier didn't think her desire for women made her a lesbian. A few of our more popular authors are highlighted at the top of the page. And of William Wordsworth's Prelude, she wrote to friend Ethel Smyth, saying, "Do you know, it’s so good, so succulent, so suggestive, that I have to hoard it, as a child keeps a crumb of cake? And once that content is created, our marketing and sales team promote your work while giving you the tools to promote it, too. When appropriate, books are also submitted to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. She wrote: "I loved it so much I hid it so my mother would not be able to return it to the library. Let us know using the recommendations form. Over time, the novel has transformed from bestseller to cultural classic, with many stage and screen adaptations, including an Oscar-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, and a 1993 book sequel by Susan Hill titled Mrs de Winter. Mostly, we see her through the eyes of the new Mrs de Winter, the "heroine" of the novel who, paradoxically, remains unnamed—a choice that surprised many fans of the book, including Agatha Christie [PDF]. Mention the title to any bibliophile and they will no doubt give you many reasons why the novel has charmed and captivated so many generations over the years. Below is a list of all of the authors we currently list on BookSeries.org. Most known for: The Name Jar. Emily St. John Mandel's book about a group of actors in a recently post-apocalyptic society, he said, is "a deeply melancholy novel, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac … a book that I will long remember, and return to.". Loved by Harlan Coben readers, an incredible mystery and thriller author. Simply head here to find dozens of T-shirts with all sorts of unique designs to choose from, whether you’re in the market for a pi pun, a risqué grammar joke, or something only your fellow bookworms will appreciate. In 2017, English bibliophiles voted Rebecca their favorite book of the past 225 years. They included, he wrote, "Anna Karenina, Far Away and Long Ago, Buddenbrooks, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, A Sportsman's Sketches, The Brothers Karamazov, Hail and Farewell, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Winesburg, Ohio, La Reine Margot, The Maison Tellier, Le Rouge et le Noir, La Chartreuse de Parme, Dubliners, Yeats's Autobiographies, and a few others.". It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort.".