As Recommended By: Books
Some of the best recommendations come from the people whose work we already admire. Explore the favourite books, movies and TV shows of authors, directors, creators, and other tastemakers through tightly curated collections of no more than 20 picks each. Find picks from Pedro Pascal, Warren Buffett, Jonathan Franzen and more. Less time working out where to start, more time discovering something great.
- V.E. Schwab Recommends 12 Fantasy and Sci-fi Reads · 12 items
- Richard Osman's Top 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- Jonathan Franzen's Favourite Works Of Fiction · 9 items
- John Grisham's All-Time Favourite Thrillers · 7 items
- Ann Patchett's Reading List · 9 items
- Khaled Hosseini's Favourite Short Story Collections · 5 items
- Mary Beard's Best Ancient History Books · 5 items
- Martin Amis' 4 Favourite Reads · 4 items
- Neil Gaiman’s Top 10 Fiction Books · 10 items
- Margaret Atwood’s Reading List · 10 items
- John Le Carré's 3 Favourite Books · 3 items
- J.K. Rowling’s Bookshelf · 6 items
- George R.R. Martin's 5 Favourite Books · 5 items
- 6 Books Recommended by Dan Brown · 6 items
- Philip Pullman's Favourite Books of Poetry · 5 items
- Paulo Coelho’s 6 Best-Loved Books · 6 items
- Orson Scott Card's Favourite Sci-Fi Classics · 4 items
- Nick Hornby's Best-Loved Books · 6 items
- Ray Bradbury's Reading List · 4 items
- R.F. Kuang's Favourite Books · 6 items
- Sarah J. Maas' Top 10 Book Recommendations · 10 items
- Will Self's Favourite Works of Non-Fiction · 6 items
- Yann Martel's Reading List · 6 items
- Zadie Smith's Bookshelf · 5 items
- David Foster Wallace's Pop Fiction Reading List · 8 items
- Fran Lebowitz's Favourite Books by New York Writers · 5 items
- 5 Classics Recommended By John Irving · 5 items
- 10 Novels That Shaped Lionel Shriver · 10 items
- 13 Thrillers Recommended by Lee Child · 13 items
- Kazuo Ishiguro's Best-Loved Books · 4 items
- Jon Fosse's 6 Favourite Books · 6 items
- 6 Books Beloved by Jackie Collins · 6 items
- A Young Jack Kerouac's Required Reading · 3 items
- Hilary Mantel's Favourite Historical Fiction Books · 5 items
- 10 Books That Influenced C.S. Lewis · 10 items
- Colson Whitehead's 5 Favourite Books · 5 items
- Colleen Hoover's 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- 18 Books That Shaped Phoebe Waller Bridge · 18 items
- Alan Cumming's All-Time Top 10 Books · 10 items
- Ben Affleck's 5 Favourite Books · 4 items
- Bob Odenkirk's Top 5 Favourite Books · 5 items
- 3 Favourite Books of Ethan Hawke · 3 items
- Greta Gerwig's Top 10 Books · 10 items
- Halle Berry's 4 Favourite Books · 4 items
- Hugh Jackman's 4 Favourite Books · 4 items
- John Cleese's Reading List · 6 items
- 8 Books on Johnny Depp's Essential Reading List · 8 items
- Lena Dunham's Favourite Comfort Reads · 3 items
- Neil Patrick Harris' Top 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- Philip Seymour Hoffman's Favourite Books · 19 items
- 5 Books That Shaped Sarah Paulson · 5 items
- Tom Hanks' Top 10 Books · 10 items
- Viggo Mortensen's Top 10 Books · 10 items
- 5 Books That Shaped Scarlett Johansson · 5 items
- Owen Wilson's Favourite Books · 5 items
- Morgan Freeman's Favourite Books · 4 items
- Margot Robbie's Reading List · 11 items
- Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bookshelf · 6 items
- Kate Winslet's Reading List · 5 items
- Julianne Moore's Bookshelf · 5 items
- Julia Roberts' Bookshelf · 5 items
- Jon Hamm's Favourite Books · 4 items
- John Lithgow's Reading List · 10 items
- John Krasinski’s 5 Best-Loved Books · 5 items
- Jodie Foster's Favourite Books · 5 items
- Jeremy Strong's Top 10 Books · 10 items
- Hugh Laurie's Reading List · 6 items
- 6 Books That Shaped Gwyneth Paltrow · 6 items
- Gene Wilder's All-Time Favourite Books · 6 items
- Drew Barrymore's Favourite Books · 6 items
- Daniel Radcliffe's Reading List · 7 items
- Colin Firth’s Favourite Books · 4 items
- Chris Pine's Recommended Reading List · 11 items
- Cate Blanchett's Reading List · 6 items
- Carrie Fisher's Favourite Books · 6 items
- 10 Books That Inspire Cameron Diaz · 10 items
- 6 Books Recommended by Brian Cox · 6 items
- Books Recommended By Anthony Hopkins · 4 items
- 7 of Peruse Project's All-Time Favourite Books · 7 items
- Tilda Swinton's Favourite Reads · 9 items
- Cilian Murphy's Top 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- 3 Existential Classics Recommended by Alain de Botton · 3 items
- Christopher Hitchens' Reading List for a Young Free Thinker · 5 items
- Jordan Peterson's Intellectual Reading Curriculum · 15 items
- Emerald Fennell's 6 Favourite Books · 6 items
- Werner Herzog's Reading List for Aspiring Filmmakers · 5 items
- Bong Joon Ho's Top 4 Favourite Books · 4 items
- Luca Guadagnino's Reading List · 5 items
- Darren Aronofsky's 5 Favorite Books on Filmmaking · 5 items
- Bradley Cooper's Top 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- Zendaya's Required Reading · 2 items
- Ryan Holiday's Recommended Reading · 8 items
- Steven Bartlett's Top 10 Favourite Books of All Time · 10 items
- Top 5 Desert Island Picks from @aymansbooks · 5 items
- Maggie O'Farrell's 10 Favourite Novels · 10 items
- Elif Shafak's All-Time 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- Ian McEwan's All-Time Top 10 Novels · 10 items
- Roxane Gay's 10 Favourite Novels · 10 items
- Ian Rankin's 10 Favourite Novels · 10 items
- 10 Novels Recommended by Bernardine Evaristo · 10 items
- Salman Rushdie's 10 Favourite Novels · 10 items
- 5 Books Bill Gates Recommends to Family and Friends · 5 items
- Warren Buffett's 5 Highest-Praised Books · 5 items
- 15 Books Ali Abdaal Thinks Everyone Should Read · 15 items
- Ernest Hemmingway's reading list · 16 items
- Stephen King's 10 Favourite Books · 10 items
- Elon Musk's First-Principles Reading List · 11 items
- 6 Books Recommended by Yuval Noah Harari · 6 items
- Jack Edwards' Top 6 Modern Classics · 6 items
- Ursula K. Le Guin's 6 Favourite Classic Novels · 6 items
- Oprah's Super-Soulful Reading List · 7 items
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essential Reading List · 18 items