ALICE HOFFMAN, author of The Story Sisters, recommends:

Alice Hoffman suggests...

• Chez Moi by Agnès Desarthe
• Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

WALTER MOSLEY, author of The Long Fall, recommends:

Walter Mosley suggests...

• Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
• The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
• Song for Night by Chris Abani

JOSEPH O'NEILL, author of Netherland, recommends:

Joseph O'Neill suggests:

• Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• The Believers by Zoë Heller
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• Me Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood by Cheeta
• My Judy Garland Life: A Memoir by Susie Boyt
• The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant by Robert Sullivan

CHUCK PALAHNIUK, author-illustrator of Pygmy, recommends:

Chuck Palahniuk suggests...

• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor' by Brad Gooch
• Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption by Dan Clark
• Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams
• Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

SARAH WATERS, author of The Little Stranger, recommends:

Sarah Waters suggests...

• Asylum by Patrick McGrath
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
• Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton