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Jim Lynch

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About this author

The New York Times has called Jim Lynch "a gifted and original novelist." He is the author of three novels set in Western Washington. His most recent offering is Truth Like the Sun (April, 2012), which has received international acclaim and will be released in paperback on January 22. NY Times reviewer Janet Maslin picked Truth as one of her 10 favorite books of 2012.

His first novel, The Highest Tide (2005), won the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award, was performed on stage in Seattle and became an international bestseller after it was featured on England's Richard and Judy television show. His second novel, Border Songs (2009), was also adapted to the stage and won the Washington State Book Award as well as the Indie's Choice Honor Book Aw...more


I recently set up a little bookcase in the living room and packed it with the greatest hits of my reading life. Plucked from my basement library, these 75 novels aren’t necessarily the best I've read, but they hold the stories, the writing or the ideas that jolted or inspired me the most as a reader and a writer.

The top shelf starts with Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” Based on outra... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.72 · 4,723 ratings · 1,069 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
The Highest Tide
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,988 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions
Border Songs
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,118 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
Truth Like the Sun
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
The Highest Tide
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010
Hoogtij
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005
Seekers, Sinners & Simpleto...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013
Truth Like the Sun. Jim Lynch
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013
Grensesang
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010
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It was a nice surprise today to see NY Times reviewer Janet Maslin picked my latest novel, Truth Like the Sun, as one of...more
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"Thanks, Rhonda. And then there's the thrill or disappointment of rereading those books and seeing if they still feel like good old friends."
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“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty fucking often”
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide

“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.”
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.”
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide

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