Anne Tyler is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Her latest novel is A Spool of Blue Thread. One of Tyler's six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
When this 1940 novel was rediscovered in the 1960s, poet Randall Jarrell said that if human beings were





