Ordinary People
2014 Entertainment Weekly declared this book one of the Top 5 social issues-related novels of all time -- in a league with "Catcher in the Rye" and the recent "Fault in Our Stars."
The novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar Winning film starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch.
The Novels of Judith Guest
The Tarnished Eye
A novel based on the true unsolved murder of an entire family in Michigan
Second Heaven
A novel about the impact of an abusive environment on a child -- and what happens because of it.
One GoodReader review (July 2014): "Great book, wonderfully believable characters. Have enjoyed all of Guest's novels. The dialogue is crisp and enlightening, very few authors do dialogue as well as Guest. The ending was perfect, no nice neat bows, just very satisfying."
Errands
My most autobiographical novel, based on the fact that my father was forced to cope early with the death of his father
Killing Time in St. Cloud
My first mystery, written with friend Rebecca Hill, motivated largely because we wanted to write a story together
