DOZENS OF SUGGESTIONS FOR FALL FICTION READING

BOOK CRITIC HEIDI JOHNSON-WRIGHT SUGGESTS
A COMBINATION OF CLASSIC AND 
CONTEMPORARY FICTION FOR FALL READING

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Drood by Dan Simmons (a perfect companion to Wilkie Collins’ two best books, The Woman in White and The Moonstone.)
• The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (a perfect companion to the  fantastic non-fiction book, Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King)
• The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• America Classics: Moby Dick by Herman Melville (a perfect companion to the gripping non-fiction book, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick); The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; anything by Raymond Chandler, but esp. Farewell My Lovely and The Big Sleep
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr (a perfect companion to the non-fiction book, Low Life by Luc Sante)
• The Poisonwood Bible by  Barbara Kingsolver (a perfect companion to the  fantastic non-fiction adventure travel book, Blood River: Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Country by Tim Butcher)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
• Anything by Graham Greene, but esp. The Heart of the Matter
• Anything by W. G. Sebald
• My three favorites by Mario Vargas Llosa: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter; Death in the Andes; Feast of the Goat
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West
• Two books by Donna Tartt: The Secret History and The Little Friend
• Anything by Arturo Perez-Reverte, esp. Queen of the South and The Painter of Battles
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon