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Meet Nancy Olson

Meet Nancy Olson

Nancy with local author Reynolds Price

When Nancy Olson opened a small bookstore back in 1984, she wanted it to be more than just a place to find bestsellers. Today, Quail Ridge Books and Music is a community anchor, an incubator for Raleigh’s creative class and a dream come true. Nancy joins host Frank Stasio to share stories from her many years of selling books and meeting authors.

 

Nancy Olson's Top All-Time Reading List

Pride & Prejudice (and all of Jane Austen's works)

100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Crime & Punishment - Fyodr Dostoyevsky

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

Stoner - John Williams

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

Works of William Boyd (Any Human Heart, Brazzaville Beach, Good Man In Africa, Ice Cream War, Restless )

Works of Philip Roth (American Pastoral, Human Stain, The Plot Against America )

Works of Walter Mosley (Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

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