What Sarah’s Reading:
The bulk of this (0kay, maybe 2/3) of this list are books on my semester reading list for my graduate MFA program. The rest I just had to bring because I love them.
American Primitive, Mary Oliver
The River Runs Through It and other stories, Norman Maclean
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
*O’Pioneers, Willa Cather
*The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg
*The Glimpse of the Moon, Edith Wharton
*Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
*The Blue Star, Tony Earley
*Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
*Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
*The Optimist Daughter, Eudora Welty
*The Unvaniquished, William Faulkner
*Krik, Krak, Edwina Danticat
*Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
*Winesburg, OH, Sherwood Anderson
*Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
*The Color Purple, Alice Walker
*Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston
Long Life, Mary Oliver
Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Desert Solitude, Edward Abbey