When I read Kristin Hannah’s list of favorite authors in this Sunday’s New York Times “By the Book,”  I could relate to some of her picks.  I too look for books by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, Donna Tartt, Haruki Murakami, Anne Tyler, Amor Towles, and Yaa Gyasi, but I would add Ann Patchett, Anita Shreve, and Carol Goodman, with children’a authors Natalie Babbitt, Lois Lowry, and Kate DiCamillo for good measure.

If you are looking for a good book try one of these:  (click the title for my review)

• The Shadow of the Wind by Zafon or his first book: The Prince of Mist
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt, or, if you are more ambitious, the long Goldfinch
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
• River Road by Carol Goodman
•  Son by Lois Lowry
• Raymie Nightingale by Kate Di Camillo

Another author I am exploring and reading now:

   Bernard Cornwell’s Fools and Mortals  (the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – as related by William Shakespeare’s estranged younger brother)