If I like reading Annie Proulx, Alice Munro and Barbara Kingsolver, who else might I like?

[twobluechickens]

Just that really! All ideas welcome.

Ann Patchett

Sarah Winman
Kate Atkinson
Elizabeth Strout
Clare Keegan
Louise Kennedy

Donna Tartt
Sarah Waters
Rose Tremaine

2nd all of the above and also
Carol Shields
Jane Smiley
Margaret Laurence
Siri Hustvedt
Anita Shreve
Alison Lurie
early Margaret Atwood

Penelope Lively

Helen Dunsmore

Wally lamb
Maggie O Farrell

Eleanor Ferranti

Barbara Pym
Elizabeth Taylor
Jane Gardam

First answer always has it.

But, have you read any/much Sarah Waters?
Also yy to Siri Husdvet.

Curtis Sittingfeld could be a good shout.

And Sebastian Faulks. And don’t be put off by Eli’s Shafak.

YY to Ann Patchett, Sarah Waters and Rose Tremain. Along with Annie Proulx they are some of my favourite authors.

Also have a look at Sue Gee, especially Earth and Heaven, Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark, Mary Lawson's Crow Lake and Louisa Young's My Dear I Wanted to Tell You.

Oh, and Jane Harris: The Observations and Gillespie and I.

https://www.literature-map.com/e+annie+proulx

This is a fun resource. Type in the name of an author you like and similar authors will pop up.

Iirc Barbara Kingsolver has written about Native American people and communities? If you liked that aspect of her writing I would recommend looking at Sherman Alexie.

What about Joyce Carol Oates? I love all the authors mentioned above, by the way.

Louise Erdrich

Margaret Drabble
Antonia Byatt
Jane Gardam

Thank you so much everyone! I've read What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt and it's still the only book that's made me cry, so I will definitely look for more of hers. I also like what I've read of Hilary Mantel although I've not read any of the Wolf Hall novels. I can't put a finger on what it is I like about these authors, although with AM and BK it's probably their tendency to write about the female experience/from a female perspective. I also like reading books set abroad.

Lots of authors I haven't read here so plenty to explore. Time to make use of my library membership!

Thanks again.

Ooh, I've thought of another book based on your update. Hannah Kent Burial Rites it ticks the female perspective(s) box, the other countries box with the added bonuses of being a debut (total sucker for a debut) AND it's rooted in a true story (my biggest weakness).

My other thought, is not an author, or even a specific book, but one of my favourite periods to read about is the civil rights movement in America, usually from a black perspective. It feels almost impossible for it to be taking place in living memory.

Also have you read The signature of all things? Do not be put off by the eat pray love author, seriously.

And I am assuming you've read Prodigal Summer by BK? Her best book imo.

And Wide Sargasso Sea fits your criteria nicely, if you haven't already read it.

Isabele Allende is also worth a shout out based on the women's perspective/other country vibe.

Anne Tyler
Ahdaf Soueif
Nawal El Sadaawi
Kate Atkinson
Jackie Kay
Mariama Ba
Helen Garner

@AlwaysFreezing yes I have read Prodigal Summer, and loved it. I read a lot of non-fiction nature/environment books (eg James Rebanks, Roger Deakin, Robert MacFarlane, John Lewis-Stempel etc) so PS was a great extension to that. Another reason I like Proulx - landscapes are as important as characters in her books. Easy to get carried away and lost in imagining those places.

I can't remember if I have read any Allende; if I have it was a long time ago!

Try Fredrik Backman and Richard Russo. Both wonderful 👍

Elizabeth strout.

Barbara Trapido
Ann Tyler
Kate Atkinson
Carol Shields
Alison Lurie
Margaret Atwood
Jane Gardam
Sarah Waters

All mentioned already, I think, apart from Trapido.

Seconding -
Ann Patchett
Donna Tartt
Helen Dunsmore

And adding -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Elizabeth Jane Howard

All the above! I used to enjoy Louise Erdrich, too.