Athenaeum / Faber & Faber Favourites

Stephen - CEO

1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera: 'Unfailingly brilliant and, ahem, unforgettable.'

Sarah - Senior Production Controller

2. Rebel of the Sands Trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton: 'Simply fun to read! Dive into another world and forget what is happening around you.'
3. But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens: 'This book goes straight to the heart.'

Ruth - Paperbacks Manager

4. Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones: 'One of the warmest, funniest books I've ever read.'
5. Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds: 'This is a seminal work of post-punk music writing.'

Robert - Archivist

6. The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban: 'A gripping, philosophical, story that really works for all age groups.'

Richard - UK Sales Rep

7. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi: 'I read this every couple of years and it never disappoints.'

Rachel - Trade Marketing Executive

8. Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell: 'Interweaving voices create a heady and remarkable evocation of wartime Alexandria.'
9. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes: 'An intoxicating, trippy novel set between the wars.'

Luke - UK Sales Rep

10. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: 'The most beautifOL, lyrical love story.' [fragment uit de vertaling]
11. The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien: 'Edna is a master of her craft.'

Lorraine - Sales Operations

12. History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani: 'A brilliantly compelling history of the Arab world in book form.'
13. Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk: 'An author's portrait of his home city. BeautifOLly written and immensely moving.'

Lizzie - Rights Director

14. Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter: 'A heartbreaking, funny, gorgeous, shot-in-the-arm of a novel about grief, love, family, healing, and a crow.' [onze recensie | fragment uit de vertaling]
15. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: 'Every single one of those voices still rings in my head so clearly by years after reading it.' [onze boekverkopersbespreking]

Kate - Pre-press

16. The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore: 'Lorrie's writing is full of wit, honesty and stylish delivery.'
17. Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow: 'Such warmth and lightness of touch carrying a huge amount of research.'

Joey - Head of Faber Academy

18. Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel: 'No one else in poetry writes like this; a cannibal with impeccable table manners.'
19. Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins: 'A perfect exemplar of what makes the new poetry fresh, provocative and exciting.'

Hayley - Faber Members Manager

20. An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah: 'A subtle and moving book about fears and jealousies.'

Hannah - Marketing Manager

21. Ariel by Sylvia Plath: 'This is a book that has been a companion to me over many, many years.'

Emmie - Editor

22. Open City by Teju Cole: 'A novel that changes the way you look at human behaviour.' [recensie | fragment uit de vertaling]
23. Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings: 'What if the Soviet "miracle" had worked?'

Bridget - International Development Manager

24. The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read: 'Still one of the best overviews of art history and the its key principles ever written.'
25. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver: 'An inspiring and challenging record of one family's attempt at eating local food for a whole year.'

And of course,

26. Faber & Faber by Toby Faber: 'Brilliant vignettes and untold stories behind some of the greatest literature of the twentieth century.'