Patti Callahan Henry
Apr 8, 20223 min
Q&A with Patti Callahan
I'd wager that Mary Kay Andrews, Graham Greene, and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes have never sat next to each other in a headline before now. But I am here for it! SURVIVING SAVANNAH is out in paperback TOMORROW from Berkley Publishing Group!
April 4, 2022
By BOOKMARKS
Patti Callahan: Narnia Chronicles. It’s the first time I felt like a book actually transported me out of my own life and world and into another.
PC: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. I find something new in this book every single time I read it.
PC: Becoming Mrs. Lewis with A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis. Mrs. Lewis is the extraordinary woman named Joy Davidman, who was once C. S. Lewis’ wife. When she tragically passed, he wrote A Grief Observed about his own mourning.
PC: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
PC: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
PC: Beach Music by Pat Conroy
PC: We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker. I’ve been nearly an evangelist for this book. Everything about it blew me away.
PC: Anything by Mary Kay Andrews.
PC: Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This also falls under my category of re-reads! I have an old marked up paperback that my daughter has now: I love the passing down of books that change us.
PC: Anam Cara by John O’Donohue. There isn’t another like it.
PC: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
PC: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
PC: Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn
PC: Ian McEwan’s Atonement.
PC: Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
PC: Finally, late to the party, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
PC: The Lost Queen by Signe Pike, and a long ago love of mine, Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons.
Patti Callahan is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Globe and Mail bestselling novelist of fifteen novels, including Once Upon a Wardrobe, Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah. A recipient of the Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year, the Christy Book of the Year, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year, Patti is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series and podcast Friends & Fiction.