Ballantine Reader's Circle Reader

Fiction excerpts from eighteen acclaimed authors whose works appeared as Ballantine Reader's Circle titles in 1999; with a personal introduction to each author from their editor on what delights them about their authors' fiction.
The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton / Jane Smiley;
The mirror / Lynn Freed;
Children of God / Mary Doria Russell;
Saints and villains / Denise Giardina;
A patchwork planet / Anne Tyler;
The umbrella country / Bino A. Realuyo;
A widow for one year / John Irving;
The hunger moon / Suzanne Matson;
In dark water / Mermer Blakeslee;
Black glass : short fictions / Karen Joy Fowler;
What we keep / Elizabeth Berg;
Gone for good / Mark Childress;
The edge of heaven / Marita Golden;
Hanna's daughters / Marianne Fredriksson;
By the light of my father's smile / Alice Walker;
Final vinyl days : stories / Jill McCorkle;
Mistler's exit / Louis Begley;
Cruel as the grave / Sharon Kay Penman.