Critic’s chart

CAT’S EYE (An impossible chart, by the way.)

Piercing novel about friendship.

THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Because with some authors it is particularly invidious to choose between titles.)

Fine new edition of this classic from Everyman’s Library.

ORYX AND CRAKE (And Atwood is so prolific.)

You’ll never look at a chicken drumstick the same again.

STRANGE THINGS: THE MALEVOLENT NORTH IN CANADIAN LITERATURE (Can you tell I think I’m not being given enough space, here?)

Try it. You’ll like it. My personal money-back guarantee.

GOOD BONES (And how to desribe what she does in so few words?) Stories with a twist. Hamlet’s mother has her say.

EATING FIRE: SELECTED POETRY, 1965-95 (Go to her website, instead: owtoad.com)

She got her start as a poet and never stopped.