Hanif Kureishi Shattered's Reading List

By the Book: Hanif Kureishi Shattered (2025)

NYT By the Book column (2025-01-30).

Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon

"In hospital I listened to Miriam Margolyes reading Dickens's "Bleak House," doing all the voices. Pure genius."

P.G. Wodehouse · Buy on Amazon

"Probably "Joy in the Morning," by P.G. Wodehouse."

Andrea Lawlor · Buy on Amazon

"Just before my accident somebody gave me a novel by Andrea Lawlor called "Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl," which I read twice."