What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book - Edited by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust
By Pandora Sykes
By Pandora Sykes
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book
Pandora Sykes
£12.99 £12.34Edited by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust
Emil And The Detectives
Erich Kastner
£7.99 £7.59There are some books that you know are there, at the core of you - Nick Hornby
Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Jane Austen
£8.99 £8.54It ignited my lifelong love affair with Austen’s work - Monica Ali
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
£9.99 £9.49The miracle of writing is that we can meet other people on a page - Diana Evans
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin
£8.99 £8.54It is a book that feels hopeless and yet provides hope - Lisa Taddeo
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Meg Mason
£9.99 £9.49What luck it is to love someone you’ve never met, to be elevated and improved by both the author and her book - Ann Patchett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
£9.99 £9.49For the first time in my life, literature had provoked a sensual, erotic shock in me - Leïla Slimani
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Zadie Smith
£9.99 £9.49I think Zadie Smith does things in it that border on genius - Caleb Azumah Nelson
Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories
£11.99
I knew that it was a mistake to judge a book by its cover but how could this be anything less than phenomenal? - David Nicholls
Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding
£9.99 £9.49The joy of reading is that books forge these connections between the unlikeliest of people - Sara Collins
Tom's Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
£7.99The twist of plot unlocked so much for me, it haunted and obsessed me - Tessa Hadley
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
£10.99 £10.44Gladwell is a skilled and talented storyteller - George the Poet
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
£9.99 £9.49I loved it because it was funny in this very eccentric way - Marian Keyes
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£6.99 £6.64This was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen - Derek Owusu
The Summer Book: A Novel
Tove Jansson
£9.99 £9.49The lightness of its writing, day or night, dark or light, is a kind of magic - Ali Smith
The Beach
Alex Garland
£9.99 £9.49Like all great works of art, it helps furnish my inner world - Paris Lees
Heartburn: VMC 40th Anniversary Edition
Nora Ephron
£9.99 £9.49The most-loved and most-read book on my shelf - Dolly Alderton
Escape to an Autumn Pavement
Andrew Salkey
£8.99 £8.54The Windrush generation produced a rich seam of literature - Paul Mendez
National Velvet
Enid Bagnold
£7.99 £7.59I’m a picky reader and I get something out of it every time I read it - Jojo Moyes
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy
£9.99 £9.49This was a book that made me feel that one could do something magical with language - Meena Kandasamy
Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
£8.99 £8.54As a reader, I have no favourite book. As a writer, I have Moon Tiger - Taiye Selasi
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
£9.99 £9.49She knew what it was to put the reader at the centre of all her storytelling - Elizabeth Day
The Thing About December
Donal Ryan
£8.99 £8.54I was horrified that someone had written something so fantastic - Kit de Waal
I Capture the Castle: A special gift edition
Dodie Smith
£8.99 £8.54I was inspired and enchanted by this most unusual novel - Deborah Levy
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
£8.99The true pleasure of this book is its style – dryly lyrical, but also highly restrained - Damon Galgut
Schott's Original Miscellany
Ben Schott
£16.99 £16.14It reminds you on every page that life holds more than you can ever comprehend - Naoise Dolan
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
£9.99 £9.49I was utterly rapt, utterly held and read the book in one long blast of mesmerised absorption - William Boyd
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
£8.99It’s incredible that it was Larsen’s first book – the writing is sublime - Emma Dabiri