,
Carol Shields

Carol Shields’s Followers (670)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Carol Shields


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

Died
July 16, 2003

Website

Genre


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

Average rating: 3.79 · 87,336 ratings · 5,997 reviews · 74 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Stone Diaries

3.89 avg rating — 42,174 ratings — published 1993 — 131 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Unless

3.63 avg rating — 17,109 ratings — published 2002 — 96 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Larry's Party

3.74 avg rating — 9,104 ratings — published 1997 — 80 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Jane Austen: A Life

3.70 avg rating — 4,457 ratings — published 2001 — 38 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Republic of Love

3.74 avg rating — 2,975 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Swann

3.71 avg rating — 2,333 ratings — published 1987 — 60 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Happenstance: Two Novels in...

3.74 avg rating — 1,549 ratings — published 1980 — 25 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Small Ceremonies

3.77 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 1976 — 32 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Box Garden

3.68 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Collected Stories of Ca...

4.13 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Carol Shields…
Dropped Threads: What We Ar... Dropped Threads 2: More of ...
(3 books)
by
3.74 avg rating — 1,142 ratings

Quotes by Carol Shields  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“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

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
Carol Shields

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
Carol Shields, Unless

Polls

July is literary/general fiction. This list of books is pulled from Booker Prize eligible, nominees for the Longlist, Shortlist or winners. Voting will be open through May 31.

 
  3 votes, 75.0%

The Gathering The Gathering by Anne Enright Anne Enright
 
  1 vote, 25.0%

The Black Prince The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Chatterton Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The English Patient The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Challenge: 50 Books: Sarah's booklist 2009 61 723 Sep 04, 2009 08:34AM  
Romance Readers R...: This topic has been closed to new comments. September Monthly Challenge: Discussion and Suggestion Thread 38 148 Sep 19, 2009 02:06PM  
Romance Readers R...: September Monthly Challenge: Participants' Lists Thread 214 321 Oct 03, 2009 07:00AM