Monday, September 01, 2008

Philip Pullman: 40 favorite books

The bookstore Waterstone's invited His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman to select forty books for them to feature in-store.

(Read about his selection criteria.)

A couple of the titles to make the list:
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
by Wilkie Collins

For sheer plotting genius, Collins had no rival. If you've never read this, I can promise you one of the most gripping stories of all time.
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ART AND ILLUSION
by E.H. Gombrich

This is all about the mysterious business of looking and seeing, and E.H. Gombrich looked deeper and saw more than almost any other writer on art.
Read more about Pullman's list.

--Marshal Zeringue