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- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Auel, Jean M.
- Austen, Jane
- Auster, Paul
- Bauman, Beth Ann
- Beckett, Samuel
- Blixen, Karen
- Blum, Jenna
- Bolaño, Roberto
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Bull, Bartle
- Byatt, A.S.
- Chekhov, Anton
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Coward, Noel
- Cranworth, Lord
- Dehaene, Stanislas
- Desai, Santosh
- Descartes, René
- Diamond, Jared
- Didion, Joan
- Dobyns, Stephen
- Doctorow, E.L.
- Eliot, George
- Enright, Anne
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Forester, C.S.
- Forster, E.M.
- Fox, James
- Frayn, Michael
- Gaarder, Jostein
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Gibbons, Stella
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Gordon, George, Lord Byron
- Gordon, Jaimy
- Gottlieb, Lori
- Grossman, David
- Hanley, Gerald
- Hare, David
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Hochschild, Adam
- Hollinghurst, Alan
- Huxley, Aldous
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Irving, John
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry
- Jamie, Kathleen
- Johnson, Samuel
- Kassobova, Kapka
- Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Kundera, Milan
- Leakey, Lewis
- Leithauser, Brad
- MacNeice, Louis
- Mantel, Hilary
- Markham, Beryl
- Maugham, Somerset
- Maupassant, Guy de
- McEwan, Ian
- Middleton, Thomas
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Charles
- Mitchell, David
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Moore, Lorrie
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Oliver, Mary
- Ong, Walter
- Orr, David
- Oyono, Ferdinand
- Patterson, James
- Peck, Dale
- Pierpont, Claudia Roth
- Powers, Richard
- Proust, Marcel
- Rankin, Ian
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Rosberg, Jr., Carl G. and Nottingham, John
- Ryan, Kay
- Sacks, Oliver
- Salih, Tayeb
- Salinger, J.D.
- Shakespeare, William
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Singer, Peter
- Stein, Gertrude
- Sterne, Laurence
- Thackeray, William
- Thomas, DM
- Thurman, Judith
- Toíbín, Colm
- Tree, Iris
- Trzebinski, Errol
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Wallace, David Foster
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wharton, Edith
- Wheeler, Sara
- Whitman, Walt
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wolf, Maryanne
- Wordsworth, William
- Wrong, Michela
- Yagoda, Ben
- de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- de Tocqueville, Alexis
- wa Thiongo, Ngugi
Biographies
- Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
- Silence Will Speak
- Too Close to the Sun
Book Reviews
Copyright
Exhibition catalogs
- and Europe will be stunned
Fables
- The Little Prince
- Winter's Tales
Humanitarian work
Life
Maya Alexandri's Novels
- The Celebration Husband
- The Swing of Beijing
Memoir
- Kenya Chronicles
- My Struggle
- Out of Africa
- Shadows on the Grass
- Warriors
- West with the Night
Non-fiction
- Democracy in America
- Discourse on Method
- Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
- Letters from Africa
- Letters to his Wife and Friends
- Memoir: A History
- Mother Pious Lady
- Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
- Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
- Proust and the Squid
- Reading in the Brain
- The Lunatic Express
- The Myth of "Mau Mau": Nationalism in Kenya
- White Mischief
Notes to Self
Novels
- 2666
- A Book of Common Prayer
- A Gate at the Stairs
- A Grain of Wheat
- A House for Mr. Biswas
- A Passage to India
- A Place of Greater Safety
- A Room with a View
- Black Swan Green
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Daisy Miller
- Emma
- Fathers and Sons
- Gilead
- Gone with the Wind
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Houseboy
- In Praise of the Stepmother
- Invisible
- Lord of Misrule
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Madame Bovary
- Middlemarch
- Northanger Abbey
- Portraint of a Lady
- Possession
- Pride and Prejudice
- Psmith, Journalist
- Red Strangers
- Right Ho, Jeeves
- Season of Migration to the North
- Sense and Sensibility
- Sophie's World
- Thank You, Jeeves
- The African Queen
- The Age of Innocence
- The Aspern Papers
- The Bad Girl
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Child in Time
- The Clan of the Cavebear
- The Fallen Angel
- The Feast of the Goat
- The Fountainhead
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Line of Beauty
- The Master
- The Moon and Sixpence
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
- The Turn of the Screw
- The Valley of the Horses
- The White Rhino Hotel
- The Wings of the Dove
- The World According to Garp
- This Way to Paradise
- Those Who Save Us
- To the End of the Land
- Vanity Fair
- Weight
- Wolf Hall
On Being Female
Plays
- A Midsummer's Night Dream
- All My Sons
- Beppo
- Copenhagen
- Design for Living
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, parts 1 and 2
- Krapp's Last Tape
- Lysistrata
- Othello
- Pygmalion
- Wall: A Monologue
- Women Beware Women
Podcasts
Poems
- Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play
- Lines Written in Early Spring
- Poussin
- Snow
- Sonnet XVII
- Sonnet XX
- Spiderweb
- Spiritual Chickens
- The Door
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The way we live
- Turtle
- Where We Are (after Bede)
- Who Kill'd John Keats?
- Wild Geese
Publishing
Research for Novels
Short stories
- Averröes' Search
- Boule de suif
- Emma Zunz
- House of Asterion
- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
- Parable of the Palace
- Ragnarök
- Romance at Droitgate Spa
- Self-Help
- Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
- The Dead Man
- The Heroine
- The Immortal
- The Man on the Threshold
- The Necklace
- The Theologians
- The Two Kings and their Two Labyrinths
- The Witness
- The Writing of the God
- The Zahir
The Bible
The Great Themes
- Art and transcendence
- Articulating the inarticulable
- Connection between literacy and visual arts
- Courage as indispensible
- Critical thinking
- Dignity
- Family patterns across generations
- Fidelity to facts
- Human consciousness
- Humiliation and love
- Importance of aesthetics
- Integrity under fire
- Limitations on compassion
- Prudishness
- Reading and class distinctions
- The inessentialness of humanity
- The nature of fiction
- The nature of greatness
- The perils of insularity
- The power of writing
- The role of the novelist
- The value of debate
- The value of reading
- The well-told story
- Transitional modernization
- Unconditional love of life
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Writing my novels