Peter Boxall is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on drama and twentieth-century fiction and contributes regularly to journals such as The Yearbook of English Studies. He has recently published a Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett's drama and current projects include co-editing The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction and a monograph on contemporary fiction, Since Beckett. Peter Ackroyd is well known for writing historical fiction. His awards are numerous, including the Guardian Fiction Prize, Whitbread Biography Award, Royal Society of Literature William Heinemman Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize to name but a few. He has written biographies on T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens and more and also holds a C.B.E for services to literature. London
A selection of the greatest contemporary and classic books you should read including: Aesop's Fables, Little Women, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bleak House, Crime and Punishment, Arcadia, Foucault's Pendulum, On the Road, The Cider House Rules, The Good Soldier, The Water-Babies, Brighton Rock, A Room with a View, American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, Kidnapped, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Invisible Sons, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, La Bete Humaine and many many more