Ruth Ware's Reading List

"Some are old favorites that I like to dip back into after a hard day — "Howl's Moving Castle," by Diana Wynne Jones, would fall into that category."

"I only recently read "The Shining," by Stephen King. I had always considered myself too much of a scaredy-cat for King's work... but actually "The Shining" wasn't as horrifying as I had feared. I'm sorry I waited so long."

"my entry drug, one of the first real "crime" stories I encountered, was Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." My mum read it to me and my sister as a bedtime story when I would have been about 8 or 9, and I had nightmares for weeks. It definitely showed me the power of the imagination!"

"perhaps "Razorblade Tears," by S.A. Cosby, which shows two very different men connected by their unbearable grief over the loss of their sons"

"or the memoir "Lowborn," by Kerry Hudson, which lays painfully bare the reality of the harsh choices facing many families."