Books written by Anne Tyler

Breathing Lessons: A Novel

MUSIC SALES CORPORATION & G. SCHIRMER, INC., AND HAL LEONARD CORPORATION: Excerpts from “On the Road Again,” words and music by Floyd Jones, Willie Nelson, and Alan C. Wilson. Copyright © 1968 (renewed) by Embassy Music Corporation ...
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel

“Now, tell me what to do after Russell Street,” she said. “Ma'am?” “How do I find your house?” “Oh,” he said, “why don't you just drop me off downtown.” “Where downtown?” “Anyplace will do.” She looked over at him.
Saint Maybe

Ian Bedloe's life is forever affected by an event that took place years before--the night, in 1967, when he told his older brother, Dan, that Dan's wife had been cheating on him and that the baby son Dan had come to love was not his own
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South

When Anne Tyler helped us celebrate the first ten years of the series in Best of the South, 1986–1995, the reviews were ecstatic. “A triumph of authentic voices and unforgettable characters,” said Southern Living. “An introduction ...
Saint Maybe

A rainbow?” Thomas said. He had an amazing thought. He got so excited he slid off the bed, not forgetting to be careful of the picture. “Then, Agatha!” he said. “Listen! Maybe that's how we could find where we used to live.
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El matrimonio amateur

Desde el sonido de la caja registradora a la contracultura de los sesenta, de las minifaldas al grunje, Anne Tyler explora con agudeza, humor y ternura los hilos que sostienen a una pareja incompatible y las consecuencias de su unión a lo ...
A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959.
Clock Dance: A novel

Go west a ways and then north a ways. But Towson itself was a maze of small streets, not easily sorted out. Denise's hair had the bruised-fruit smell of her shampoo, which Willa had helped her suds up last night at the kitchen sink.
The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer

It didn't seem to her there was the remotest chance it could taste like apple pie. Maybe you soaked the crackers in cider or something first. She looked on the box for the recipe, but it wasn't mentioned. Now Ira would be starting to ...
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise three children, who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death.
Digging to America

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes "an intimate picture of middle-class family life" (The New York Times) that challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle ...
Digging to America: A Novel

Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport.
Ladder of Years

. . . "TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . .
Breathing Lessons

During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours - into the lives of old friends and grown children - the author shows us there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can ...
Back when We Were Grownups: A Novel

Beck Davitch looks back on her thirty-year marriage to Joe and her role as a mother and manager of the Open Arms, wondering if she is living the life she was meant to live and reconsidering her dedication to the family business.
Earthly Possessions

An early triumph from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe, for all her new and old fans.
Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
French Braid: A novel

Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free ...
Noah's Compass: A Novel

Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job, Liam Pennywell struggles to recall missing memories of the night before he awoke in the hospital with a head injury, an effort that leads to unexpected discoveries.