Reading List
Jojo Moyes
Novelist and Former Journalist
Jojo Moyes worked as a journalist for a decade, most of it at The Independent, before Me Before You sold in the millions and was adapted for film in 2016. She has written more than a dozen novels since, including The Giver of Stars, about the packhorse librarians of Depression-era Kentucky, and is one of the few authors to have won the Romantic Novel of the Year award twice. Her reading tends toward books built around a woman the author refused to make likeable.
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Nobody’s Perfect
by Anthony Lane · 2002 · Essays
“Funny, astute, and often surprising, they are always a pleasure to dip into, even if you have zero interest in the films he is writing about.” — via Article
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The Black Stallion
by Walter Farley · 1941 · Children's
“An American children's classic, this book, with its tales of survival, loyalty, and childhood courage, has somehow worked its way under my skin and stayed with me my whole life.” — via Article
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Standard Deviation
by Katherine Heiny · 2017 · Fiction
“When I read this novel about a New York City couple, their child, and the husband's ex-wife, it made me laugh so much in public that my family disowned me. It was also the first time I had felt unnervingly” — via Article
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Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan · 2021 · Fiction
“Claire Keegan's novels, while short, waste not a single word. I loved this not just because of the surgical precision of the descriptions, and the haunting, narrow focus of the story, set in a small Irish town. I loved it because it was essentially about a rarity in modern fiction: a good man.” — via Article
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · Fiction
“It's fashionable these days not to like Ernest Hemingway, especially for his misogyny, but he also wrote scathingly about men's treatment of women. Lady Brett Ashley is one of the great female characters in literature.” — via Article
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Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo · 2019 · Nonfiction
“This book has become a kind of litmus test for me: I've given it to more friends than I can remember. A journalistic deep dive into female desire and the lies we tell ourselves, it provokes visceral reactions. After I read it, I tracked Lisa down and insisted we become friends. She's a one-off.” — via Article
