Wolf Hall
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More
To Kill a Mockingbird
Much-loved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, voted by librarians across America as the best novel of the twentieth century. More
A Woman of Substance
With her unforgettable heroine Emma Harte, Bradford popularized the rags-to-riches family saga. More
Barbara Taylor Bradford
When I say I have the need to write, I do mean need. More
Our Town
Pulitzer Prize–winning drama; hailed by Edward Albee as “The finest play ever written by an American.” More
Go Set a Watchman
This newly discovered novel from beloved author Harper Lee became the bestselling book of 2015. More
The Known World
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More
Angela’s Ashes
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. More
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More
Bel Canto
Patchett’s critically acclaimed novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. More
The Thorn Birds
McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More
Pilgrim
A finalist for the Giller Prize and a Canadian bestseller that surpassed the author’s own impressive sales records. More
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An American classic called “one of the books of the century” by the New York Public Library. More
One Hundred Years of Solitude
This landmark of magical realism sparked a wave of interest in Central and South American literature. More
People of the Book
Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More
The White Tiger
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More
Cathy Glass
I have always been a writer. More
Bring Up the Bodies
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the first to win as a sequel. More
Matt Haig
It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More
The Bell Jar
A haunting classic that chronicles the breakdown of a brilliant, talented, successful young woman. More
The Poisonwood Bible
Pulitzer Prize finalist and runaway bestseller. More
Michael Chabon
The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. More
Middlemarch
Ranked number one in a 2015 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British novels. More
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera’s postmodern masterwork; named one of the best books of 1984 (New York Times Book Review). More