Philip Pullman’s Everyman Library

 

 

If you need any inspiration as to what literary masterpieces should stand on your shelf, look no

further. Everyman’s Library have spoken to the brilliant author Philip Pullman, who

is perhaps best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, published by

Everyman’s Library with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

 

His top five Everyman’s Library titles are:

 

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Every so often I read this and remind myself what it’s possible for a 25-year-old to write.

And then I remember that you have to be a genius as well.

 

Poemsand Prophecies byWilliam Blake

A psychologist of unparalleled wisdom,a poet of incomparable power. I would never be

without a copy of Blake.

 

Middlemarch by George Eliot

I don’t think I shall ever become tired of this novel. She seems to have known

everyone and everything.

 

The Code of the Woosters by P.G.Wodehouse

I’ve got to have a Wodehouse, but which?This will have to stand for them all.

 

Poems by C. P.Cavafy

I’ve loved these poems since I was a teenager intoxicated by Lawrence Durrell’s

Alexandria Quartet. I’ve hardly read that since, but I still love Cavafy.