Michael C. White: Recommended Reads of 2011

Michael C. White is the author of seven books including “Soul Catcher,” which was a Booksense and Historical Novels Review selection, as well as a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, and “A Brother’s Blood,” which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers nominee. About his most recent novel, “Beautiful Assassin,” Bookpage.com said: “Painstakingly researched, relentlessly paced, Beautiful Assassin is a book you will not put down easily, and one that will resonate well past the closing pages.”

His recommended reads for 2011 are:

“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski. The New York Times called this book “The most enchanting debut novel of the summer….a great, big, mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana…One of the great pleasures of “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” is its free-roaming, unhurried progress, enlivened by the author’s inability to write anything but guilelessly captivating prose.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Entertainment Weekly called Robinson’s latest work “Incandescent . . . magnificent . . . [a] literary miracle.”