Leigh Bardugo's Reading List

"it's like an eldritch Our Town. It's spectacularly weird and heartbreaking and funny, and it contains some of the most beautiful writing I've ever encountered."

"Maybe that's the book everyone should read before they're 21 and then reread after 40."

"Dune was both massive for me, and they both live comfortably between science fiction and fantasy."

"A Swiftly Tilting Planet was massive for me."

"I'd never read horror. I didn't understand what it could do, that it could stick in your head and keep you up night after night. The power of that never faded."

"My all-time favorite is The Thirteen Problems, a collection of Miss Marple short stories by Agatha Christie."

"I remember reading Rachel Cusk's The Country Life on a plane and shouting ha! when I got to a particular line. It was so funny and vulgar and unexpected that it literally startled sound out of me."