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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within…

— Adam Hochschild

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says…

— Tess Gerritsen

I used to like Dick Francis novels as a kid, who was like Enid Blyton but based around horses, and he'd write about the…

— Bez

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

— John Gimlette

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped…

— Candice Millard

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a…

— Joe Root

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who…

— Vladimir Putin

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated…

— Janet Evanovich

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account…

— Dean Karnazes

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by…

— Stacy Schiff

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella