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The Beginner's Goodbye (2012)

If you'd given me this book and blocked out the author's name I still would have known who wrote it.I had no problems with it; read easily, made sense, in the same way all Tyler's novels do.All her characters seem like they're in their 60s, though, no matter how old they really are supposed to be...

The Beginner's Goodbye (2012) by Anne Tyler
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Noah's Compass (2010)

Life is too short to keep reading a book that doesn't interest you. I used to never give up on a book. I just knew that it would pay off in the end and the book would actually be great. However, as I get older, I realize that idea is like sitting at a slot machine that you are convinced will f...

Noah's Compass (2010) by Anne Tyler
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La bussola di Noè (2009)

My first Anne Tyler. About to finish my second (Back when we were grown ups). Very similar themes, and not sure what the deal is with Baltimore. A mundane background for mundane lives, that have moments of contentment, acceptance, and in the latter, self realization? Also, what's the deal with du...

La bussola di Noè (2009) by Anne Tyler
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Digging to America (2006)

For many years Anne Tyler was among my very favorite authors. I cooled on her a while back when trying unsuccessfully to read The Amateur Marriage (just couldn't bear seeing the mess those characters made of their lives). But when browsing the library for my next audiobook I was glad to try this ...

Digging to America (2006) by Anne Tyler
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Ladder of Years (1997)

I've always been delighted that Anne Tyler's novels are always a lot less fluffy than they seem, given the plot synopses on the back of my paperbacks.The truth is, Tyler better captures more than almost any other author the inner lives of regular folks. I was surprised to find myself and constant...

Ladder of Years (1997) by Anne Tyler
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The Amateur Marriage (2006)

Anne Tyler has run so much water over the elements of her quirky Baltimore families that she risks becoming the high priestess of homeopathic fiction. Now, with "The Amateur Marriage," the bittersweet perception that infused her earlier work is so attenuated that only the most faithful fans will ...

The Amateur Marriage (2006) by Anne Tyler
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Stories of the Modern South (1995)

Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. This excellent collection includes works by Truman Capot...

Stories of the Modern South (1995) by Anne Tyler
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Saint Maybe (1996)

Reading the back-of-the-book synopsis, I expected Saint Maybe to be a sort of grace-centered retread of 1980's Ordinary People, in which a teenager struggles to come to terms with the death of his older, "better" brother (for which he feels partially responsible) with the help of a compassionate ...

Saint Maybe (1996) by Anne Tyler
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The Clock Winder (1996)

Noting the relationship between my goodreads friends and acquaintances, and Anne Tyler makes me wonder. Is Jane Austen some sort of token? We have to like somebody who writes about domesticity, so...Is that it? Tyler does indeed write about domesticity. Ordinary people living ordinary lives, most...

The Clock Winder (1996) by Anne Tyler
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Earthly Possessions (1996)

"The marriage wasn't going well and I decided to leave my husband."So begins Anne Tyler's story of a woman named Charlotte, 35, from a small town in Maryland, sometime in the mid-1970s. A tale of ordinary people, with all the strengths and limitations that implies. Tyler has been ploughing this s...

Earthly Possessions (1996) by Anne Tyler
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The Accidental Tourist (2002)

The Accidental Tourist really surprised me. I have never read Anne Tyler before and I don’t usually get into general fiction like this but this was, to put it very simply, a beautiful novel and story. It is amazingly well-written, the characters are totally unique but believable, and the plot is ...

The Accidental Tourist (2002) by Anne Tyler
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Back When We Were Grownups (2004)

I surprised myself by enjoying this novel quite a lot more than I'd expected, since I'm not the most enthusiastic of Anne Tyler fans (or of these sorts of novels) and usually reserve them, in fact, for when I'm stuck and have nothing else at hand to read or when I'm really, really tired/stressed ...

Back When We Were Grownups (2004) by Anne Tyler
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Morgan's Passing (1996)

It had been so long since I read Anne Tyler, I began to miss her. So I decided to reread Morgan’s Passing because it’s one of the books I least remember, likely because this book isn’t so much a well-plotted story as it is a great character study of protagonist, Morgan Gower. But this is typical ...

Morgan's Passing (1996) by Anne Tyler
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Celestial Navigation (1996)

Sad people are the only real ones. They can tell you the truth about things; they have always known that there is no one you can depend upon forever and no change in your life, however great, that can keep you from being in the end what you were in the beginning: lost and lonely, sitting on an oi...

Celestial Navigation (1996) by Anne Tyler
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The Tin Can Tree (1996)

Anne Tyler has been one of my favorite writers for the last 30 years. I don't think it's because I grew up a few neighborhoods away from her; I think it's because she's talented, tender, and wise. "The Tin Can Tree" is her second novel and will celebrate it's 50th anniversary next year. It's t...

The Tin Can Tree (1996) by Anne Tyler
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1996)

This is my first time to read 3 books by an author in succession: one, two, three... Just like the saying when it rains, it pours, I am having an Anne Tyler Book Festival. After reading her The Accidental Tourist I went to the bookstore and bought Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and read right...

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1996) by Anne Tyler
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Searching for Caleb (1996)

Family, you can never leave nor forsake them. Anne Tyler's "Searching for Caleb" examines family ties and the impact they so blatantly have on you. Tyler's use of wavering characters, Justine and her husband Duncan, explain how their misplacement did not necessarily exclude them from their " perf...

Searching for Caleb (1996) by Anne Tyler
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A Patchwork Planet (2001)

The critics say that Anne Tyler writes novels with quirky characters. I say that we are all quirky characters. Certainly, I grew up with and am a member of a family of quirky characters. I find the characters in Anne Tyler's novels real, they are people one meets everyday. As I began to read ...

A Patchwork Planet (2001) by Anne Tyler
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Vinegar Girl (2016)

Mrs. Darling said, and then she asked Kate to come to her office again.     This time Kate couldn’t leave her class during Quiet Rest Time, because Mrs. Chauncey was out sick. And on Tuesdays she was responsible for Extended Daycare once school was over. So she would be forced...

Vinegar Girl (2016) by Anne Tyler
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Breathing Lessons

sir?" "If you've got a lug wrench, I could tighten that wheel myself." "Oh, why ... Is a lug wrench like a ordinary wrench?" "You probably have one in your trunk," Ira told him, "where you keep your jack." "Oh! But where do I keep my jack, I wonder," Mr. Otis said. "In your trunk," Ira repeated d...

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
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A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)

The first time he saw her she was sitting on a picnic blanket with the Moffat twins, Mary and Martha, both of them seniors in high school, and he had just assumed that she was the same age they were. Stupid of him. He should have realized from her plain, unrouged face, and her hair hanging loose ...

A Spool of Blue Thread (2015) by Anne Tyler

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