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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is a novelist best known for literary and contemporary fiction,character-driven novels often centred on family and domestic life.

Notable titles include Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize winner), The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance and Vinegar Girl.

Good entry points are Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize winner), The Accidental Tourist, A Spool of Blue Thread or the more recent Clock Dance,any of these showcase her style and can be read independently.

Most of Anne Tyler's novels are standalone works and can be read in any order; there is no overarching series or required sequence.

She won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons, received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2012, and A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2015.