Anne Tyler

[Pruners]

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Yes, she's one of my favourite authors. I think I've read all of her novels, now. But don't ask me to choose which I like the best!

Yes she is very good. But I find I forget a lot of the stories a few months after I've read them.

Didn't she write 'The Accidental Tourist' - which was made into a film?

Oh, she's fantastic. Have just read The Amateur Marriage; so poignant. She captures people perfectly. Have read loads of hers but can never remember which ones.

Her latest is very good, about two families who adopt Korean children. Digging to America, I think it's called.

I love her; in fact I think she's my favourite writer. I think she gets bracketed into that middle-aged-women type of writer but she's head and shoulders above other, similar writers.

My favourite is The Accidental Tourist.

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I really love her writing too - I think she captures the mundane drama of family life so perfectly. Oh, I think I like Morgan's Passing best, or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. I like all of them, although they do blur into one another after a while.

I LOVE Anne Tyler - I've read all of them. Breathing Lessons is the best.

I also LOVE Anne Tyler. I think Accidental Tourist and Digging for America are my favourites.

I'm also a big fan.
I love the fact that her books are really easy to read but yet make me think about things in a new way. She has a real insight into how people think and behave.

Can any of you recommend any other authors that are similar? I need some new books but can't face anything that needs too much concentration

I think Rosalind Pilcher and Mary Wesley are fairly similar except that they are British.

Carol Shields? Margaret Atwood (not the sci-fi ones)?

pruners - i am currently reading Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (we are in the same bookswap group)

it is fantastic

I also think she is similar to Anita Shreeve (same examination of relationships, and eye for detail plus great dialogue)

MM - totally agree with Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood. I love them too. Any more?

Anorak - I didn't get one so well with these.

RS - sorry missed your post. Agree with Anita Shreeve, although I liked some more than others. I was less keen on the historical ones.

I have read a few of hers - I do like her writing style. Can't remember all of the titles but yes, Digging for america was good. Am getting frustrated now actually, can remember vague plots of some I have read, but not the titles!

have only read the accidental tourist but really enjoyed it

I love Anne Tyler

Also similar vein; Margaret Forster , Mary Lawson and Alice Munro.

Margaret Forster? Not quite the same, but not wholly different...

Margaret Forster is fantastic.

Like Anne Tyler too..
What about Anne Pratchett?
Just read Magician's Assistant and was brill.

OH yes I love Anne Tyler. I've read everything she's written. It helps to read some of the more recent best selling ones first I thought and then go into her back catalogue. Some of her early novels are a bit slight and wouldn't inspire me to carry on with her if that was where I had started.

How about Barbara Kingsolver? Not entirely similar but also American and handles tough issues gently like Tyler.

Love Anne Tyler. Started reading her when I was a teenager. she has such a knack for creating interesting characters.

I like Joyce Carol Oates as well as most of the others mentioned here already.

I love Anne Tyler too - I think I've now read all her books so have to wait for a new one to come out. I have only read one Joyce Carol Oates book - The Falls - and hated it. Apart from Margaret Forster who is great, I would also recommend Jane Gardam.

I lurve Anne Tyler, but have only recently read any M Forster - have read a couple and found them really dull and turgid, I thought about starting a thread on it ("is it me?")