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Jim Lynch

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Seattle, The United States

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Jim Lynch is the author of the novels The Highest Tide, Border Songs and Truth Like the Sun, all of which were performed on stage and won prizes, including an Indies Choice Honor Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and a Dashiell Hammett Prize finalist. His next novel, Before the Wind, will be released in April 2016. As a newspaper reporter, Lynch has won national awards, including the Livingston Young Journalist Award. He lives in Olympia, Washington, with his wife and daughter.

Lynch's book tour with his next novel, "Before the Wind," will begin in mid-April 2016 and will feature visits to east and west coast bookstores and venues. Dates and locations will be available soon. ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 12,283 ratings · 2,047 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Highest Tide 3.85 avg rating — 7,086 ratings — published 2005 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Songs 3.63 avg rating — 2,507 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth Like the Sun 3.34 avg rating — 1,622 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before the Wind 3.91 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zealandia the valley that changed a nation 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vagabond: The Life and Times of McBee Hooper by Jim Lynch (Goodreads Author), Amy Bushnell (Illustrator) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My Inspiring Bookcase

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 outrageo Read more of this blog post »

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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

tags: hate

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“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

tags: ocean, poetry, rachel-carson

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“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.”
― Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide

tags: adolescence

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~~ Members Choice for June ~~

Now is the time to vote on our nominated books for the June Member's Choice Book Nomination.

Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover.

Time to vote now for the June Members Choice book selection. This poll will remain open until the end of the day on May 14th.

The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

18 votes, 32.7%

A Mother's Secret

by Renita D'Silva

10 votes, 18.2%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

8 votes, 14.5%

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7 votes, 12.7%

A Parchment of Leaves

by Silas House

5 votes, 9.1%

Pictures of You

by Caroline Leavitt

5 votes, 9.1%

Truth Like the Sun

by Jim Lynch

2 votes, 3.6%

55 total votes

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