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in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult

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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. She has published 20 novels, her debut novel being If Morning Ever Comes in (1964). Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 815,124 ratings · 78,435 reviews · 125 distinct works • Similar authors
Three Days in June
3.59 avg rating — 127,840 ratings — published 2025 — 33 editions
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The Accidental Tourist
3.89 avg rating — 110,059 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions
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A Spool of Blue Thread
3.45 avg rating — 104,432 ratings — published 2015 — 84 editions
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French Braid
3.63 avg rating — 57,527 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions
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Redhead by the Side of the ...
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Clock Dance
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Vinegar Girl
3.39 avg rating — 42,168 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Dinner at the Homesick Rest...
3.80 avg rating — 35,662 ratings — published 1982 — 70 editions
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Breathing Lessons
3.66 avg rating — 34,354 ratings — published 1988 — 164 editions
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Digging to America
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
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“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
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“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
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April 2015 New School Classic Group Read

What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  12 votes, 25.5%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  7 votes, 14.9%

 
  5 votes, 10.6%

 
  5 votes, 10.6%

1954, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, 128 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.5%

1952, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 236 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1903, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 320 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1988, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler, 350 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

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