Wolf Hall
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More
The Hours
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award; made into an Oscar-winning film. More
The Corrections
Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. More
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera’s postmodern masterwork; named one of the best books of 1984 (New York Times Book Review). More
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Memoir offering a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome. More
The Thorn Birds
McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More
Mary Karr
I read to save my life, to take communion, to enter a community of fellow sufferers and rejoicers. More
Go Set a Watchman
This newly discovered novel from beloved author Harper Lee became the bestselling book of 2015. 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
The White Tiger
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More
Middlemarch
Ranked number one in a 2015 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British novels. More
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More
Our Town
Pulitzer Prize–winning drama; hailed by Edward Albee as “The finest play ever written by an American.” More
Just Kids
Legendary artist Patti Smith’s critically acclaimed memoir; winner of the National Book Award. More
The Poisonwood Bible
Pulitzer Prize finalist and runaway bestseller. More
Jane Eyre
Brontë’s masterpiece of Gothic romance; a milestone title in the history of British feminist literature. More
One Hundred Years of Solitude
This landmark of magical realism sparked a wave of interest in Central and South American literature. More
Angela’s Ashes
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. More
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
This 1972 Booker Prize–nominated novel was also made into a 1978 Australian film. More
Bring Up the Bodies
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the first to win as a sequel. More
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An American classic called “one of the books of the century” by the New York Public Library. More
Cathy Glass
I have always been a writer. More
Matt Haig
It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More
People of the Book
Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More
Pilgrim
A finalist for the Giller Prize and a Canadian bestseller that surpassed the author’s own impressive sales records. More
The Shipping News
Highly acclaimed international bestseller; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More
Barbara Taylor Bradford
When I say I have the need to write, I do mean need. More
