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Carol Shields


Born
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
June 02, 1935

Died
July 16, 2003

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 87,824 ratings · 6,048 reviews · 76 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stone Diaries
3.89 avg rating — 42,427 ratings — published 1993 — 131 editions
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Unless
3.63 avg rating — 17,210 ratings — published 2002 — 96 editions
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Larry's Party
3.74 avg rating — 9,141 ratings — published 1997 — 80 editions
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Jane Austen: A Life
3.70 avg rating — 4,472 ratings — published 2001 — 40 editions
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The Republic of Love
3.74 avg rating — 2,989 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions
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Swann
3.71 avg rating — 2,340 ratings — published 1987 — 60 editions
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Happenstance: Two Novels in...
3.74 avg rating — 1,556 ratings — published 1980 — 25 editions
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Small Ceremonies
3.77 avg rating — 1,258 ratings — published 1976 — 32 editions
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The Box Garden
3.68 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions
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The Collected Stories of Ca...
4.13 avg rating — 799 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions
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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields
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“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless
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Polls

Our genre for May is literary/general fiction. Please vote for the selection you would like to read. Poll will be up for one week. Last day to vote will be Tuesday, April 8.

A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
 
  3 votes, 23.1%

The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Carol Shields
 
  3 votes, 23.1%

Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
 
  2 votes, 15.4%

Bel Canto Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett
 
  2 votes, 15.4%

The Invisible Circus The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Alchemist The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Master The Master by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Green Knight The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Golden Notebook The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Doris Lessing
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

All the Pretty Horses All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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