📚Here are a few more Modern Authors in several genres that I think are worth reading (for adults).
(See my other 3 posts in this series for additional authors)
📝 Barbara Kingsolver
Writes:
Literary Fiction
Read For:
Absolutely perfect voicing and characterization displayed in stories you’ll never forget
📝 Margarita Engle
Writes:
Middle Grade/YA Verse
Read For:
Stories and poetry that will both break your heart and restore your hope
📝 Erica Bauermeister
Writes:
Contemporary Fiction
Read For:
Deceptively readable (and quotable) writing that will provoke many thoughts and conversations
📝 Anna Quindlen
Writes:
Literary Fiction/Nonfiction
Read For:
Writing that effortlessly captures the mundanity and beauty of every day life and lovely, complex, imperfect people
📝 Anne Patchett
Writes:
Literary Fiction/Essays
Read For:
Exposure to one of America’s finest writers and a snapshot of the rare phenomenon of perfectly constructed sentences in immersive stories with unforgettable characters.
📝 Dennis Lehane
Writes:
Noir
Read For:
Smart writing, immersive atmosphere, and several novels that have also been adapted into great movies
📝 Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Writes:
Magical Realism
Read For:
The best kind of emotional damage 😘 - but also, deceptively simple writing and a really clever use of an overused plot device
📝 Nikki Grimes
Writes:
Poetry/Novels in Verse/Middle Grade/One of the Best Memoirs Ever Written
Read For:
Because, she’s an actual treasure and you’ll never be the same
📝 Annie Ernaux
Writes:
Memoirs
Read For:
The most intimate writing you’ll ever read that forces you to dig deeper into your thoughts, memories, identity, and emotions than you bargained for but will never regret
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