What a universe of riches is contained in a writer’s list of recommended books. This is the second article self has posted in honor of Independent Bookstore Day 2018. Everyone who wants to do something special for the day, take a look at Anne-Adele’s books below, then go to your nearest independent bookstore and inquire if they have a copy in-store. If they don’t, ask them to order. It only takes a few days!
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Anne-Adele Wight is the author of the poetry collections The Age of Greenhouses, Sidestep Catapult and Opera House Arterial, which she describes as “a surreal trickster mythology.” An interview of her can be found on her publisher’s website: BlazeVOX. Her background includes literature, archaeology, and technical communication. She performs widely and has sponsored many events in her home city of Philadelphia.
Here is how she explains the genesis of Opera House Arterial:
Without further ado, Anne-Adele’s list of recommended books:
- Sandra Beasley, Count the Waves
- Sarah Blake, Let’s Not Live on Earth
- Travis Cebula and Sarah Suzor, After the Fox
- CAConrad, While Standing in Line for Death
- Lucas de Lima, Wetland
- Ryan Eckes, Valu-Plus
- Lisa A. Flowers, diatomhero: religious poems
- Geoffrey Gatza, A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees
- Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Solar Maximum
- Lynn Levin, Miss Plastique
- Jane Lewty, In One Form to Find Another
- Jenn McCreary, Ab Ovo
- MaryAnn L. Miller, Cures for Hysteria
- Debrah Morkun, Projection Machine
- Eileen Myles, I Must Be Living Twice
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Jazzercise is a Language
- Raquel Salas Rivera, lo tercario / tertiary
- Amy Small-McKinney, Walking toward Cranes
- Nicole Steinberg, Glass Actress
- Brian Teare, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
- Divya Victor, Things to Do with Your Mouth
- Anne Waldman, Manatee / Humanity
FICTION
- Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
- Ann Arensberg, Incubus
- Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder
- Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress
- Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
- Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Doris Lessing, The Grandmothers
- Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Manor
- Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
NONFICTION & GENRE-DEFYING
- Atul Gawande, Mortal
- David Harrison, The Last Speakers: A Quest to Save the World’s Most Endangered Languages
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- Gina Kolata, Flu
- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
- Kelcey Parker Ervick, The Bitter Life of Božena Němcova
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Now, get on over to your local independent bookstore!
Stay tuned.
