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Sophie Hannah's Reading List

Sophie Hannah, whose Hercule Poirot novel "The Mystery of Three Quarters" will be published this month, is addicted to self-help: "Write a book and call it something like 'The Five Secrets of Badass Kickassery' and I will buy it immediately."

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By the Book: Sophie Hannah (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-08-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Something Wonderful
Todd S. Purdum · Buy on Amazon
"I've loved Rodgers and Hammerstein since I was 17, when I starred in a college production of "Oklahoma!" as Ado Annie"
Cover of The Black Prince
The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch · Buy on Amazon
"The book is so great, I almost feel it has magic powers. It's tragic, comic, mysterious, thought-provoking and so much more than the sum of its parts."
Coming From Behind
Howard Jacobson · Buy on Amazon
"It's the funniest book I've ever read. Every sentence is a comic masterpiece in its own right."
The Hollow
Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon
"It's a watertight mystery with vivid, memorable characters. There's a surreal scene in which the murder is discovered by Hercule Poirot that is both visually and psychologically brilliant — my favorite crime scene in the whole genre."
Cover of The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon
"I've loved Agatha Christie ever since I read "The Body in the Library" when I was 12. I devoured it, and then read all her other books in two years."
House Rules
Rachel Sontag · Buy on Amazon
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know
Heather Sellers · Buy on Amazon
Half Broken Things
Morag Joss · Buy on Amazon
"It's a stunning, haunting and provocative psychological suspense novel that anyone who cares about literature should read. It ought to be widely recognized as a classic."
Cover of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton · Buy on Amazon
"a startlingly original debut crime novel"
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson · Buy on Amazon
"Jon Ronson's book makes a brilliant case for never doing that."
Poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Buy on Amazon
"Sharp, witty, moving love poems."

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