My Everyman’s Library with Kazuo Ishiguro

Heal's Everyman's Library Kazuo Ishiguro Top 5 Books

The second part in our Everyman’s Library guest posts, this week internationally acclaimed author Kazuo Ishiguro picks his five favourite books from the publishers back catalogue.

Shooting to literary stardom with his compelling novel The Remains of the Day, which is published by Everyman’s Library and features an introduction by Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro is one of Britain’s most talented novelists, screen-writers and short-story writers.

To celebrate the publisher’s 25th anniversary, Kazuo Ishiguro talks us through his top five Everyman’s Library titles.

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A vast gallery of characters and every one of them barking mad. But the madness is fascinating and richly variegated. And its plot, about delusional amateur terrorists in provincial Russia, couldn’t be more timely.

The Odyssey by Homer
The greatest story ever told about the long journey home. War trauma, temptations, awful obstacles – and the fear that home will no longer be the place of one’s memories.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Her beautiful, flawed masterpiece. A novel filled with the poetry of self-denial; the textures of diary; and the melancholy of life slipping by emptily.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Everyone knows about the escape from an exceptionally unpleasant prison. But it’s the suspenseful, refined revenge story occupying the next thousand pages that makes this such a compelling masterpiece.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
A great modernist novel published in 1851? Is it profoundly metaphorical? Or is it simply, unapologetically, magnificently, obsessed with – whaling?

 

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