Conversations with Authors - Lisa See
Sunday, May 3rd • 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST
Lisa See
in conversation with Kathryn Belden
Friends,
Thank you to all those who joined in today from near and far.
It was wonderful for me to have a conversation with two people who I admire greatly—the amazing Elaine Petrocelli and the thoughtful Kathy Belden.
For the epigraph for Howard’s End, E.M. Forster wrote, Only connect. These words seem more important and more vital than ever. As I think about these strange times, I’m heartened and encouraged by the endurance of women like Elaine and Kathy to meet difficulties, to persist, to keep life regular life going for all of us, and to help us connect.
These characteristics are reflected in the books I love and that I’ve been reading.
- Your House Will Pay: A Novel by Steph Cha
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- The Black Echo (A Harry Bosch Novel #1) by Michael Connelly
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- The Color of Air: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama (coming in July 2020)
We didn’t have a chance to talk about this, but for comfort I’ve also been rereading some of my favorite books from childhood:
- The Jungle Book (Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
—Lisa
Below, please find links to purchase all of the books recommended by Lisa, as well as a selection of her own books.
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
“[A] suspense-filled page-turner.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer
#1 New York Times Bestseller
From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in the first novel of the "thrilling" Harry Bosch series (New York Times Book Review).
An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past.
My Ántonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities and is supported by expansive outreach and publicity campaigns.$6.95ISBN: 9780395083659Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - October 1st, 1997O Pioneers!, Willa Cather's first great novel, is the classic American story of pioneer life as embodied by one remarkable woman and her singular devotion to the land. Alexandra Bergson arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Nebraska as a young girl and grows up to turn it into a prosperous farm.$10.95ISBN: 9781981171477Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - November 26th, 2017
$26.99ISBN: 9780062976192Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order NowPublished: HarperVia - July 7th, 2020From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai’i's sugar plantations.
Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i.$6.99ISBN: 9780141325293Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Puffin Books - March 5th, 2009A classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther.
$15.95ISBN: 9781598184105Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Alan Rodgers Books - June 1st, 2005HEIDI is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many tales written by the Swiss authoress, Johanna Spyri, who died in her home at Zurich in 1891.
$16.00ISBN: 9780147514011Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Puffin Books - August 28th, 2014Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.
$18.00ISBN: 9781501154867Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scribner - March 10th, 2020THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who c$18.00ISBN: 9781501154836Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scribner - April 3rd, 2018From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea.$16.95ISBN: 9780307950390Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - February 7th, 2012In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
ISBN: 9780812980547Availability: BackorderedPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 7th, 2012#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Astonishing . . . one of those hard-to-put-down-until-four-in-the morning books . . . a story with characters who enter a reader’s life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history.”—Los Angeles Times
ISBN: 9780812980530Availability: BackorderedPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 2nd, 2010NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today
$17.00ISBN: 9780812975222Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 19th, 2008“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
$17.00ISBN: 9780812978681Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - December 31st, 2007“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”
–The Washington Post Book World$17.00ISBN: 9780812968064Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 21st, 2006Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
