The Best Novels of the 19^th Century

(written in English)

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
2. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
5. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)
7. Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)
8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
10. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1892)
13. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1987)
14. Heart of Darkness by Thomas Mann (1899)
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

Note: these are all novels written in the English language—foreign languages may come later

Note #2: this list just includes novels—another list may be coming

Note#3: no more than one work by an author

Click HERE to read an interesting NY Times article on the invisible hand that guided Harper Lee when she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

Congratulations to the ten winners of the Goodreads Giveaway for my new book The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea!

Top Ten Novels of the Modernist Period

(roughly 1900-1940—in chronological order)

1)      Howard’s End by E.M. Forester (1910)

2)      My Ánotonia by Willa Cather (1918)

3)      The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

4)      Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

5)      The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

6)      Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

7)      The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

8)      Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)

9)      As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

10)  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

Note: these are all novels written in the English language—foreign languages may come later

Note #2: this list just includes novels—another list may be coming

Note#3: no more than one work by an author

My new book, The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea, is available NOW!
(Description is below. Published by Silk Raven Press)

Right now, the book is only $10 on this web site! (Description is below.)

It’s also available for the Kindle (which you can order from this site).

You can also find the book and the Kindle version on Amazon as well.

Barnes and Noble’s web site carries the book too.

But at the moment, the book is cheaper on this web site!

THE DISTANT SOUND OF BOILING TEA

Ever notice how the whistle of a boiling tea kettle sounds like a scream?

A screenplay without a film, The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea is the story of two emotionally adrift women and the preyed upon young boy between them.

Ruth St. Clair struggles with indifference as a wife and mother. Her husband Phil is a violent alcoholic, but instead of divorcing him, she pursues a seminarian who is nearing his ordination. Ruth feels herself going through the motions in raising her fifteen-year-old son Danny, yet she is surprised to discover that he has become a stranger.

Lisa Ann Kavanagh is truly lost. A high school teacher newly separated from her husband, a man twenty years her senior, Lisa Ann does what she thinks is expected of her in an attempt to find a foothold, but nothing seems right until she falls for one of her students: Danny St. Clair.

What transpires sends the two women hurtling towards each other. Neither makes much of Phil’s growing obsession for the teacher. As light is shown into the darkest corners, Danny’s victimhood is called into question, and Phil, who believes Lisa Ann chose his son over him, begins to plot his revenge through a haze of whisky fumes and stripper glitter.

Thank you to everyone who helped me during the Sweater Girl Book Tour, especially my booking agent, Kathie Woods Harrington, and my personal assistant/road manager, Kathie Cronk. Thank you to everyone who came to a signing or reading. A good time was had by all…and we’ll see everyone soon!

Harleysville Books, Harleysville, PA (9-13-14)
Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown, PA (9-27-14)
Ambler Main Street Oktoberfest, Ambler, PA (10-4-14)
Mt. Airy Read & Eat, Philadelphia, PA (12-11-14)
Farley’s Bookshop, New Hope, PA (4-11-15)
Big Blue Marble Books, Philadelphia, PA (5-16-15)

Great turnout and my fellow author, Diana Krantz, and I had a great time!

The Q&A session after our readings was really terrific, full of insightful (and fun) questions.

Thank you to Kathie Cronk, my sister and road manager, and Kathleen Harrington, my mom and my booking agent.

This was the last stop on the Sweater Girl Book Tour 2014-15.

Here is a photo from the reading:

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Here I am yesterday at the start of my book signing at Farley’s Bookshop in New Hope yesterday, the last stop on the Sweater Girl Book Tour.

Thank you to my booking agent, Kathie Woods Harrington, for keeping me company. Thank you to the staff of Farley’s Bookshop too. Oh, and thank you to Kathie Cronk for the homemade cookies, always a hit at the book signings.