The Hours
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award; made into an Oscar-winning film. More
Empire of the Sun
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. More
The Bell Jar
A haunting classic that chronicles the breakdown of a brilliant, talented, successful young woman. More
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Memoir offering a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome. More
People of the Book
Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An American classic called “one of the books of the century” by the New York Public Library. More
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pulitzer Prize winner; considered one of the classic works of creative nonfiction of the late twentieth century. More
Papillon
A bestselling phenomenon and classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure. More
Seven Years in Tibet
A landmark in travel writing, it has been translated into fifty-three languages. More
Angela’s Ashes
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. More
Charlotte Gray
A book that influenced me and why: Middlemarch by George Eliot. More
Cathy Glass
I have always been a writer. More
Namita Gokhale
I read to share the world, to treasure words, to learn and intuit and recognise experiences to which I have no direct access. More
Mary Karr
I read to save my life, to take communion, to enter a community of fellow sufferers and rejoicers. More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More
Love and War in the Apennines
The early life story of a man who would become one of Britain’s best-loved literary adventurers. More
Just Kids
Legendary artist Patti Smith’s critically acclaimed memoir; winner of the National Book Award. More