Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Why do I read? Seriously? I’m supposed to provide an intelligent answer? More
The Shipping News
Highly acclaimed international bestseller; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More
Anne O’Brien
Writing about medieval women is compulsive. More
Heather Graham
Why I read . . .Books are simply magic. More
Publishing Firsts: The Historical Romance Genre
At the time of its publication in 1972, nothing like Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Flame and the Flower had ever been published. More
The Thorn Birds
McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More
Tara Moss
Thanks to my parents, I’ve been a passionate reader since childhood. More
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
One life is not enough. More
Francesca Lia Block
It has been said that only two things helped survivors of the Holocaust: 1) massage and 2) telling their stories. More
Lauren Weisberger
A book that influenced me and why . . . Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume was incredibly influential to me as a child. More
Social Change: Civil Rights
Beginning with This Is My Story (1937), Harper & Brothers published many works by Eleanor Roosevelt that promoted civil rights and the need for government action, including This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and Tomorrow Is Now (1963). More
Blonde
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More
Red Scarf Girl
Searing memoir set during the height of the Cultural Revolution in China. More
Julie of the Wolves
Newbery Medal–winning classic about a girl living among wolves. More
Cally Taylor
When I get an idea for a novel the fizz of excitement I feel is electrifying. More
The Stone Diaries
Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award (Canada) and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More
Jane O’Connor
I really have no hobbies—nearly all of my leisure time is spent with a good book. More
Middlemarch
Ranked number one in a 2015 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British novels. More
Katherine Applegate
I write to see where I’ve already been. More
Michele A’Court
I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More
How Harlequin Became Romance
When Richard H.G. Bonnycastle, a former Arctic explorer with the Hudson Bay Company, launched Harlequin Books in Winnipeg in 1948, he had little interest in building a publishing empire around romance novels. More
Freaky Friday
Classic comedic children’s novel that is so funny it has been adapted into film three times. More
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Award-winning first book in the If You Give series, which has sold more than 15 million copies. More
Bring Up the Bodies
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the first to win as a sequel. More
Cathy Glass
I have always been a writer. More
Deborah Challinor
I read to escape, whether the genre is crime, historical, dystopian, thriller, or biography. More
Jenna Bush Hager
I read because it’s in my DNA. More
