This week we are investigating the reading habits of a genuine superstar. Kate Mosse OBE is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy and her latest novel City of Tears that is currently topping the bestseller charts. She is the co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction and a guest presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. We talked to Kate about the importance of libraries, vintage crime, meeting your public and the greatness of Toni Morrison.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

Ngaio Marsh - Collection

Josephine Tey - Daughter of Time

Margery Allingham - Tiger in the Smoke

Patricia Wentworth - Listening Eye

Agatha Christie - Body in the Library

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus

Anna Burns - No Bones

Anna Burns - Milkman

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Eimear McBride - Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Madness of a Seduced Woman

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Ali Smith - Autumn

Margaret Atwood - Negotiating With The Dead

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Russell Ash - Readers Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain

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