Meet Nancy Olson
Monday, August 18 2008
by Frank Stasio and Rachel McCarthy
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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