How can I follow Digging to America by Anne Tyler?

[ChristianaTheSeventh]

I love her writing... I have to space out her books really because I just read them all the time.

Digging to America has to be one of my alltime favourite books ever.

What should I try now?

Other books I have read recently and liked - On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan), the Little Stranger (Sarah Waters), Cazalet chronicles (Elizabeth Jane Howard)

Have you read any Joyce Carol Oates?

You might like her if you like Tyler.

Try Carol Shields and Margaret Forster.

Thanks. I have a Carol Shields on the shelf (Unless). Did Margaret Forster write a famous book about a girl in Newcastle?! Think I heard her on woman's hour recently.

I've heard a lot about Joyce Carol Oates, is there anything particular you'd recommend?

Joyce Carol Oates is fab

I have just re-read "The GraveDigger's Daughter" and "The Falls"

I quite liked We Were the Mulvaneys. Family relationships sort of a book.

I love Tyler too. `

Have you read anything by Patrick Gale? I love his style. Or Sebastian Faulks (this month's book club choice).

Cies, this is weord, but because I have a bug and am bedbound, I couldn't be bothered going to the bookshelf... So I looked under my bed and found Patrick Gale Notes From an Exhibition. Am on page 8!

Do you like it so far?

If you liked Digging to America, you might like Barbara Kingsolver - I'd suggest Prodigal Summer or the Bean Trees to start with, as they are a more manageable length than the Poisonwood Bible, which is the one she's best known for.

Wow, all my favourite authors in one thread!

Joyce Carol Oates is great but often disturbing, there's always a touch of the weird in her stories.

I love Donna Tartt. She only has two novels out, they're both huge and satisfying: The Secret History and The Little Friend.

Cies I do like it.

I have Poisonwood Bible but not the others, will try them too.

And always mean to read Tartt.

Digging to America is FAB isn't it? Have you read the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan? Rckon you' like it if not already read.

I like Anne Tyler too and also overdosed on her! My favourites were Ladder of Years (because my mother left when I was young) and far and away Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (mad brother prob as a result of shit mother).

I'm going to recommend Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before It Falls, also a family story but from a different angle.

I love Anne Tyler too

'One Day' by David Nicholls reminded me of her writing in the way she NEVER hits a false note in the characters speech...it is always believeable, and this book is the same

My favourite is LAdder of years and an Amateur marriage which made me cry

Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood is good

I adore Anne Tyler. I always feel a bit bereft after finishing one of hers! I like The Amateur Marriage and Digging to America best.

The Cazalet Chronicles is a BRILLIANT series. A really great, fun read.

My favourite Elizabeth Jane Howard book is The Beautiful Visit.

Have you tried Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter?

I always feel like the close characterisation is very similar to Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is my favourite author too.
I have just finished A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore which is similiar in style to Anne Tyler and really well written.