The Literary Influences Of Nick Cave
Nick Cave, gothic brooder and murder balladeer extraordinaire, has spent six decades surrounded by words. Growing up in a tiny…
Anthony Hopkins Recommends 6 Books on Belief
Accompanying the release of 2011’s The Rite, Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins gave an interview with BeliefNet discussing his personal belief…
Stephen King's 10 All-Time Favorite Novels
For his 2007 book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, J. Peder Zane asked 125 authors to name their…
Chimamanda Adichie's Favorite Books
Prize-winning writer Chimamanda Adichie‘s work has captured the hearts of critics since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, debuted in 2003. Since…
J.K. Rowling’s Bookshelf
Back in 2001, between the fourth and fifth installments of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling shared 6 of her favorite books…
Salman Rushdie's 6 Favorite Surrealist Books
Sir Salman Rushdie, the award-winning writer of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, is widely…
Margaret Atwood’s Reading List
In 1992’s The Pleasure of Reading, editor Antonia Fraser collected essays and reading lists from over 40 leading writers. Among them…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 6 Favorite Classic Novels
In late 2017, just over a month before her death at 88, fantasy and science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin shared…
David Lynch’s 5 Best-Loved Books
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.…
36 Books That Inspired Elon Musk
In a 2013 interview with Fresh Dialogues, business magnate and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reflected on the pivotal moment he picked…