Books Recommended by Famous Writers

Multihyphenate mega-talent Michaela Coel first came to fame in 2015, when she adapted her one-woman show into the darkly comic…

Widely considered the most important children’s book illustrator of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak upended the staid and sanitized tradition…

In 2013, Orion Magazine hosted a discussion between celebrated authors Rebecca Solnit and Robert MacFarlane on the evolving genre of nature writing.…

In 1962, The Christian Century posed C.S. Lewis the question, “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and…

Essayist, mathematical statistician, and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb is renowned for his books Fooled By Randomness, The Black Swan,…

“Let others boast of the books they have been given to write; I boast of those that I was given…

Award-winning author and longtime New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean is best known for her 1998 book The Orchid Thief,…

Anne Rice, whose death at 80 last week sparked an outpouring of tributes, was one of the preeminent writers of…

Born in 1912, culinary icon Julia Child revolutionized American cuisine by adapting fine French cooking techniques for the amateur home…

“Enchanted with organizing” since childhood, tidying expert and bestselling author Marie Kondo rose to fame when her first book, The…