What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Emil and the Detectives Pride and Prejudice: (Vintage Classics Austen Series) Middlesex
Orlando Fever Dream Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)
NW Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories Bridget Jones's Diary Outliers: The Story of Success
Cold Comfort Farm The Great Gatsby (Special Edition) The Summer Book: A Novel The Beach

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book - Edited by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust

By Pandora Sykes

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book - Edited by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust

By Pandora Sykes
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

Pandora Sykes

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Edited by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kastner

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There are some books that you know are there, at the core of you - Nick Hornby

Pride and Prejudice: (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

Pride and Prejudice: (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

Jane Austen

£8.99 £8.54

It ignited my lifelong love affair with Austen’s work - Monica Ali

Middlesex

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

£9.99 £9.49

The miracle of writing is that we can meet other people on a page - Diana Evans

Orlando

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

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A courageous book, full of chutzpah - Elif Shafak

Fever Dream

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin

£8.99 £8.54

It is a book that feels hopeless and yet provides hope - Lisa Taddeo

Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon

Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon

Meg Mason

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What 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: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)

Milan Kundera

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For the first time in my life, literature had provoked a sensual, erotic shock in me - Leïla Slimani

NW

NW

Zadie Smith

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I 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

Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories

£13.78

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

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding

£9.99

The joy of reading is that books forge these connections between the unlikeliest of people - Sara Collins

Outliers: The Story of Success

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

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Gladwell is a skilled and talented storyteller - George the Poet

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

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I loved it because it was funny in this very eccentric way - Marian Keyes

The Great Gatsby (Special Edition)

The Great Gatsby (Special Edition)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

£6.99

This was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen - Derek Owusu

The Summer Book: A Novel

The Summer Book: A Novel

Tove Jansson

£9.99 £9.49

The lightness of its writing, day or night, dark or light, is a kind of magic - Ali Smith

The Beach

The Beach

Alex Garland

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Like all great works of art, it helps furnish my inner world - Paris Lees

Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition – with a Foreword by Stanley Tucci

Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition – with a Foreword by Stanley Tucci

Nora Ephron

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The most-loved and most-read book on my shelf - Dolly Alderton

Escape to An Autumn Pavement

Escape to An Autumn Pavement

Andrew Salkey

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The Windrush generation produced a rich seam of literature - Paul Mendez

National Velvet

National Velvet

Enid Bagnold

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I’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

The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

Arundhati Roy

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This was a book that made me feel that one could do something magical with language - Meena Kandasamy

Moon Tiger

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

£8.99 £8.54

As a reader, I have no favourite book. As a writer, I have Moon Tiger - Taiye Selasi

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Sei Shonagon

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As I started to read, my heart beat faster - Ruth Ozeki

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

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She knew what it was to put the reader at the centre of all her storytelling - Elizabeth Day

The Thing About December

The Thing About December

Donal Ryan

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I was horrified that someone had written something so fantastic - Kit de Waal

I Capture the Castle: A special edition of the coming-of-age classic

I Capture the Castle: A special edition of the coming-of-age classic

Dodie Smith

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I was inspired and enchanted by this most unusual novel - Deborah Levy

Train Dreams

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

£8.99

The true pleasure of this book is its style – dryly lyrical, but also highly restrained - Damon Galgut

Schott's Original Miscellany

Schott's Original Miscellany

Ben Schott

£16.99 £16.14

It reminds you on every page that life holds more than you can ever comprehend - Naoise Dolan

Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

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I was utterly rapt, utterly held and read the book in one long blast of mesmerised absorption - William Boyd

Quicksand

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

£8.99

It’s incredible that it was Larsen’s first book – the writing is sublime - Emma Dabiri