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 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
For the 2011 opening of his Parisian nightclub Club Silencio, surrealist filmmaker David Lynch was given carte blanche to curate…
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…
David Attenborough's Love of Books
Speaking to the Folio Society in 2014, beloved broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough reflected on his lifelong love of the…
Carl Sagan's Reading List
In his excellent 1980s TV series Cosmos, astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan extols on the magic of reading and…
Philip Roth's 15 Favorite Works of Fiction
In 2016, Newark-born novelist Philip Roth pledged to donate his personal book collection to the Newark Public Library on his death. In…
Bill Nye's Bookshelf
The educator, author, TV presenter and mechanical engineer best known as The Science Guy, Bill Nye has been an outspoken advocate for…