The authors and the books they picked:
Ian McEwan: Le Bal by Irène Némirovsky
Joanna Trollope: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Antonia Fraser: Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
Marina Lewycka: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Andrea Levy: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Terry Pratchett: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Rose Tremain: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Philip Pullman: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh by Arnold Pomerans
Neel Mukherjee: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Nicky Haslam: A Strange Eden by Tony Duquette
Monty Don: Woodlands by Oliver Rackham
Lionel Shriver: As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Joshua Ferris: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Shirley Williams: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
John Boyne: The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Natasha Walter: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Roddy Doyle: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Alastair Campbell: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Simon Kernick: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
David Nicholls: Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Joanne Harris: Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
Simon Armitage: Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate
George Pelecanos: Northline by Willy Vlautin
