Authors share books that ignited their love of reading
To mark the National Year of Reading, some of our best-known authors have been telling us which book ignited or reignited their love of reading.
Lee Child
Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
Pat Barker
A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke
Val McDermid
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
David Nicholls
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sarah Perry
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
Jojo Moyes
The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
John Lanchester
Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, by William Shakespeare
Roddy Doyle
Just William by Richmal Crompton
Marian Keyes
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Nick Hornby
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Samantha Harvey
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
Jonathan Bate
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Malorie Blackman
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Alan Hollinghurst
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sarah Waters
The White Mountains by John Christopher
Ali Smith
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Wendy Cope
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Cressida Cowell
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Ian Rankin
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Michael Morpurgo
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
