BBC Radio 4

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing

Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Stephen Fry

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Quantum Physics

Terry Pratchett

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife

A Good Read: Stephen Fry and Alan Davies discuss dystopian visions, childhood traumas and tips for writers.

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

Victoria Hislop - The Island

Lee Child - Killing Floor