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Paula Hawkins's Reading List

The author of "The Girl on the Train" steers away from a couple of popular genres: "I have (shamefully) never read any sci-fi, and I tend to avoid horror because I'm a wimp."

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By the Book: Paula Hawkins (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-09-15).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Hanya Yanagihara · Buy on Amazon
""A Little Life," by Hanya Yanagihara. I came to it rather late — I'd been put off by what I'd heard about the upsetting subject matter... it is also a remarkable study of friendship, suffering and the difficulty of recovery."
Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks · Buy on Amazon
""The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," by Oliver Sacks"
Cover of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch · Buy on Amazon
""We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," by Philip Gourevitch"
Ryszard Kapuscinski · Buy on Amazon
""The Shadow of the Sun," by Ryszard Kapuscinski, are among those that have affected me most deeply."
Ryszard Kapuscinski · Buy on Amazon
"It would be a tossup between "The Soccer War," by Ryszard Kapuscinski, and "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote."
Cover of In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1966 · Buy on Amazon
"It would be a tossup between "The Soccer War," by Ryszard Kapuscinski, and "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote."
Cover of And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon
"In my early teens I discovered Agatha Christie — the clever plotting of "And Then There Were None" made a great impression on me."

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