In this week’s issue, we are featuring Allison Winn Scotch, author of The Theory of Opposites, an enjoyable and satisfying tale of a woman changing her fate.  Here, Allison has chosen five books that she considers modern classics, that have helped her grow in her craft and helped shaped who she wanted to be as an author. 

 

London is the Best City in America by Laura Dave

London is The Best City In America is a clever and humorous story of Laura and Dave, two siblings who give an honest perspective of contemporary courtship, family tension, and the angst we experience when life forces us to make difficult choices.

 

 

Good Grief by Lolly Winston

Sophie Stanton desperately desires to be a good widow, instead she self-medicates with ice cream for breakfast, and shows up to work in a bathrobe and bunny slippers.  After losing her husband and then her job, she leaves town determined to reinvent her life. 

 

 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

A Revolutionary architect, opinionated wife, and mom named Bernadette Fox is notorious and hates everything related to Seattle.  When her daughter aced her report card and seeks to claim her promised reward to take a family trip to Antarctica, Bernadette disappears.

 

 

Then We Came to The End by Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End revolves around an advertising agency with numerous impromptu conversations, affairs, promotions, and tragedies.  When the agency is in trouble and an unstable employee is laid off, anyone can be next.

 

 

The Stand by Stephen King

The world ends with a nanosecond of computer error in a defense department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

 

 

 

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