Annie Ernaux's Reading List

"I'm rereading a work that I read 60 years ago, Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno."

"It is the most powerful, profound book I've ever read about the devastation of one person's childhood by an adult."

"It's probably presumptuous to think that no one today has heard of Little Boy Lost, by Marghanita Laski."

"In Search of Lost Time, which my husband gave me for my 25th birthday."

"Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte — they all left me with lasting memories. I thought the authors were talking about beings who had existed."

"Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens — they all left me with lasting memories."

"Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell — they all left me with lasting memories."

"A Swedish author, Sara Stridsberg, whose book The Antarctica of Love I infinitely loved."