June 2016 – Bring Me A Book Hong Kong

Not sure what to read this Summer? See below the recommended booklist for adults from Diane Frankenstein!

“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”

Isak Dinesen

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra

A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson

Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan

Becoming Freud: the Making of a Psychoanalyst, Adam Phillips

Color Master: Stores, Aimee Bender

Dark Road, Ma Jian

Daylight Marriage, Heidi Pitlor

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh

Enlightenment of Nina Findlay, Andrea Gillies

Fourty Rooms, Olga Grushin

From the Forest, Sara Maitland

Hiding in Plain Sight, Nuruddin Farah

Hold Still: A Novel, Lynn Stegner Strong

House for Mr Biswas, V.S. Naipaul

How To Tell Toledo From the Night Sky, Lydia Netzer

Jin, Ha, A Map of Betrayal

Last Stories and Other Stories, William T Vollmann

Love Object (the) Stories, Edna O’Brien

Mendocino Fire: Stories, Elizabeth Tallent

Night at the Fiestas, Kyle Minor

Our Souls At Night, Kent Haruf

Outline, Rachel Cusk

Speak: A Novel, Louisa Hall

Talking To Ourselves, Andres Neuman

Tomorrow There will be Apricots, Jessica Soffer

We Are Water, Wally Lamb

Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan

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