Friday, September 26, 2008

Hot Topic - The Wife


Writing a book about "the wife" has been good for authors. There have been lots of titles published over the years.

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
The Senators Wife by Sue Miller
Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
The Good Wife Strikes Back by Elizabeth Buchan
River Wife by Jonis Agee
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

This year brings several more new titles about "the wife".

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Professor's Wives Club by Joanne Rendell

You can check out any one of the titles from the Stanly County Public Library. If you can think of any other titles with "the wife", please share with us. And if you've read any of these books, let us know what you thought about it.

1 comment:

Kelly Simmons said...

wow, i never thought of it that way! Guess I should have re-named my novel The Panic-Stricken Wife!

Kelly Simmons
author of Standing Still