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Carol Shields


Born
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
June 02, 1935

Died
July 16, 2003

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 87,246 ratings · 5,983 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stone Diaries
3.89 avg rating — 42,118 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Unless
3.63 avg rating — 17,096 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Larry's Party
3.74 avg rating — 9,099 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Jane Austen: A Life
3.70 avg rating — 4,455 ratings — published 2001 — 38 editions
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The Republic of Love
3.74 avg rating — 2,970 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions
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Swann
3.71 avg rating — 2,331 ratings — published 1987 — 35 editions
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Happenstance: Two Novels in...
3.74 avg rating — 1,547 ratings — published 1980 — 25 editions
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Small Ceremonies
3.77 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 1976 — 32 editions
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The Box Garden
3.68 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions
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The Collected Stories of Ca...
4.13 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions
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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields
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“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless
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Our genre for January...Literary fiction (chosen by poll). Please vote for the book you would like to read. Last day to vote is Thursday, December 19.

Possession Possession by A.S. Byatt A.S. Byatt
 
  6 votes, 42.9%

Bel Canto Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett
 
  4 votes, 28.6%

The Alchemist The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho
 
  2 votes, 14.3%

A Fine Balance A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry
 
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The Invisible Circus The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan
 
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A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
 
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The Shipping News The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Annie Proulx
 
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The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Carol Shields
 
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