• The Best Daphne du Maurier Books - Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • The Best Daphne du Maurier Books - The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier
  • The Best Daphne du Maurier Books - The Parasites by Daphne Du Maurier
  • The Best Daphne du Maurier Books - The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë by Daphne Du Maurier
  • The Best Daphne du Maurier Books - The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier

The Best Daphne du Maurier Books, recommended by Laura Varnam

Daphne du Maurier is one of the most overlooked writers of the twentieth century, says Oxford University’s Laura Varnam. As her best known-work, Rebecca, continues to attract new movie adaptations and du Maurier enjoys a critical renaissance, Varnam explores the books which highlight this novelist’s sheer range and brilliance—from biography and fiction to history and horror.

  • The Best African American Literature - Cane by Jean Toomer
  • The Best African American Literature - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Best African American Literature - The Narrows by Ann Petry
  • The Best African American Literature - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • The Best African American Literature - Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Best African American Literature, recommended by Farah Jasmine Griffin

An ever-growing body of authors are writing about the reality of what it means to be black in America, says Farah Jasmine Griffin, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. Here she recommends five works of African American literature, from greats like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison to lesser-known gems by Ann Petry.

  • The best books on Personality Types - Psychological Types by Carl Jung
  • The best books on Personality Types - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The best books on Personality Types - Murder Yet To Come by Isabel Briggs Myers
  • The best books on Personality Types - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • The best books on Personality Types - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

The best books on Personality Types, recommended by Merve Emre

Since its birth in the early twentieth century, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become the most popular personality test in the world. Here, Merve Emre, author of the new book The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, recommends five books that reveal how the language of ‘type’ has seeped into the marrow of American civic institutions and social life—from Fortune 500 companies to Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

  • The best books on Witches and Witchcraft - Red Shift by Alan Garner
  • The best books on Witches and Witchcraft - The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia by Neil Price
  • The best books on Witches and Witchcraft - Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Rane Willerslev
  • The best books on Witches and Witchcraft - The Annotated Collected Poems Edward Thomas (ed. by Edna Longley)
  • The best books on Witches and Witchcraft - The Poems of Emily Brontë Emily Brontë (ed. by Derek Roper)

The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss

For centuries, the witch has been an index not only of what we fear most in others, but also what we cannot cope with—the powerfully abnormal, strange and often irrational elements—in ourselves. And the best way to understand the history of witches and witchcraft is to first understand the supernatural, according to Diane Purkiss, Professor at Keble College, Oxford and author of the lauded book The Witch in History.