Thursday, March 16, 2017

Readalikes: If you enjoyed March's selection . . .

If you enjoyed In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, then you might like these other books suggested by our discussion group members:


  • The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
  • Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
  • When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
  • The essay To Speak is to Blunder by YiYun Li published in the January 2, 2017 issue
  • Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
  • A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
  • The writings of Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Conrad, both of whom wrote their masterworks in English, which was not their first language.

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