Author Readalikes: Anne Tyler

If You Like Anne Tyler…

Here is some other fiction about families coping with the quirks of everyday life

• Charles Baxter -- Saul and Patsy
• Maile Meloy -- Liars and Saints
• Sue Miller -- The Distinguished Guest
• Elizabeth Berg -- Say When
• Laurie Colwin -- Family Happiness
• Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
• Richard Russo -- The Risk Pool
• J. Robert Lennon -- The Funnies
• Joanna Trollope -- Other People’s Children
• Alice McDermott -- Charming Billy
• Jane Hamilton -- Disobedience
• Anne Lamott --Blue Shoe
• Kent Haruf -- Plainsong
• Eliza Osborne -- The Distance Between
• Alice Hoffman -- Seventh Heaven
• Gail Godwin -- The Good Husband
• Carol Shields -- Unless
• Lorrie Moore -- Birds of America (stories)
• Kate Atkinson -- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
• Wally Lamb -- I Know This Much Is True

Compiled March 2004