Books Recommended by Ann Patchett
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The Lying Life of Adults
A Novel
Elena Ferrante
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
2 recommendersThe All of It
A Novel
Jeannette Haien
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderMy Year Abroad
A Novel
Chang-rae Lee
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderInfinite Country
A Novel
Patricia Engel
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderSorrow and Bliss
A Novel
Meg Mason
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderKlara and the Sun
A Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
4 recommendersThe Dictionary of Lost Words
A Novel
Pip Williams
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderAtonement
A Novel
Ian McEwan
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderA High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderLittle
A Novel
Edward Carey
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderThe Souvenir Museum
Stories
Elizabeth McCracken
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderThe Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderSo We Read On
How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Maureen Corrigan
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderJungle Night
Sandra Boynton
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderBoth Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderThe Collected Stories
A Library of America Boxed Set
John Updike
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderGraceland, At Last
Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
Margaret Renkl
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommenderLittle Pieces of Hope
Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World
Todd Doughty
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1 recommenderFive Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King
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1 recommenderOh William!
Amgash, Book 3
Elizabeth Strout
Source: Ann Patchett recommended this book on the Parnassus Books website.
1 recommender
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