Booklists: suggested reading

 

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Family Matters Stars

 

Talent runs in some families - a small sampling of books by assorted family members

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Close Relations

Parents and Children:

• Amis, Kingsly and Martin
• Buckley, William F. and Christopher
• Burke, James Lee and Alafair
• Cheever, John, Susan and Benjamin
• Clark, Mary Higgins and Carol
• Harrison, Jim and Jamie
• Holt, Hazel and Tom
• Kellerman, Jonathan & Faye, Jesse
• King, Stephen & Tabitha, Joseph (Joe Hill) and Owen King
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow and Reeve
• McPhee, John and Martha
• Pilcher, Rosamund and Robin
• See, Carolyn and Lisa
• Shaara, Michael, Jeff and Lila
• Sheldon, Sidney and Mary
• Theroux, Paul, Marcel and Louis
• Vonnegut, Kurt and Martin
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder Lane
• White, Robb, Robb and Bailey

Brothers and Sisters:

• Barthleme, Frederick and Donald
• Brontes, Charlotte, Anne and Emily
• Fleming, Ian and Peter
• Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
• McCourt, Frank and Malachy
• Mitfords, Nancy, Jessica, etc.

Husbands and Wives:

• Brooks, Geraldine & Tony Horwitz
• Didion, Joan & John Gregory Dunne
• Colin & Kathryn Harrison
• Kellerman, Jonathan & Faye
• King, Stephen & Tabitha
• Lehrer, Jim & Kate
• MacDonald, Ross & Margaret Millar
• Muller, Marcia & Bill Pronzini
• Murdoch, Iris & John Bayley
• Plath, Sylvia & Ted Hughes
• Thoene, Brock & Brodie

Further Removed:

• Aiken, Conrad, Joan Aiken and Jane Aiken Hodge
• Fleming, Ian, Peter and James (nephew)
• Huxley, Aldous and Elspeth
• Trollope, Anthony and Joanna

Some Stars:

• House of Meetings
  Author: Amis, Martin
  Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 9780676977875 Date: 2007
  Kirkus Booklist
  In the slave labour camps of the Soviet Union, conjugal visits were a common occurrence. Valiant women would travel vast distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending just one night with their lovers in the so-called House of Meetings. Unsurprisingly, the results of these visits were almost invariably tragic. A short novel of great depth and richness, The House of Meetings finds Martin Amis at the height of his powers, in new and remarkably fertile fictional territory. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 11.16.06
• White Blood
  Author: Fleming, James
  Publisher: Atria $ 25 ISBN: 9780743299381 Date: 2007
  PW
  An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution. Beautifully written, richly imagined, by turns savage and tender, this exhilarating novel confirms James Fleming as one of the very best novelists at work today. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 10.16.06
• Heart-Shaped Box
  Author: Hill, Joe
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061147937 Date: 2007
  LJ
  Sooner or later the dead catch up, as Judas Coyne buys a ghost for sale on the Internet. This pulse-pounding supernatural thriller is a remarkable debut novel from a blazing new talent.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 12.27.06
• Trouble
  Author: Kellerman, Jesse
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399154034 Date: 2007
  Kirkus Kirkus
  Following up his critically acclaimed debut Sunstroke, Kellerman pens a brilliant new thriller--twisted, sexy, and unrelentingly gripping.
  Updated 11.27.06