Hay on Sky: Our guests' summer reading choices

Our guests' summer reading choices

At the end of every episode our guests told us what books they’d be taking on their summer holidays this year and we’ve compiled the whole list here for you.

We’ve also got a special Hay-on-Sky section with our friends at Lovereading.co.uk where you can see our guest authors’ own books – just CLICK HERE to have a browse through their virtual bookshelves…and even download the first chapter of any that take your fancy…at no cost!

Summer reading choices…
EPISODE 1
Tim Smit
Fire and Steam by Christian Wolmar
The Damned United by David Peace

Sandi Toksvig
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alan De Botton
Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek

Stephen Poliakoff
The Great Naturalists from Aristotle to Darwin by Robert Huxley
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort

EPISODE 2
Christopher Hitchens
What Ho Collection by P.G Wodehouse

Fay Weldon
A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beavoir and Jean Paul Sartre by Carole Seymour Jones
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill

Salman Rushdie
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

EPISODE 3
Cherie Booth
Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The Night of the Mi’raj by Zoe Ferraris
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

A L Kennedy
The Strange Case of R. L. Stevenson by Richard Woodhead
Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall

Rory McGrath
1968 by Mark Kurlansky
Dream Lover by William Boyd

Nina Conti
A La Recherche Perdu by Proust
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

EPISODE 4
Jasper FForde
Kluge: The Haphazard construction of the human mind by Gary Marcus
Hot Water by PG Wodehouse

Tim Winton
Peace by Richard Bausch
Collected Poems by W.H.Auden

General Sir Mike Jackson
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss
Berlin the Downfall by Anthony Beevor
Alan Brooke Diaries

EPISODE 5
Jo Wood
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Call of The Wild by Jack London

Nick Broomfield
God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor

EPIDOSE 6
Judith Kerr
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

Sir Roy Strong
Having it so Good – Britain in the Fifties by Peter Henness
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory by Lisa Jardine

Toby Young
Agent Zig Zag: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
The Ghost by Robert Harris

EPISODE 7
Marian Keyes
Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Michael Wood
Edge of the Orison – in the trace’s of John Clare’s journey out of essex by Iain Sinclair
Recent collected edition of George Seferis poetry

Kathleen Turner
The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments, by George Johnson
Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

EPISODE 8
Joanne Harris
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks

Dan Cruickshank
Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger

Frances Osborne
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings

EPISODE 9
John Irving
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Dom Joly
Endgame 1945 by David Stafford

Jo Brand
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My Booky Wook By Russell Brand

A C Grayling
The Earth by Richard Fortey

EPISODE 10
Don McCullin
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
199 Days – the Battle for Stalingrad by Edwin P. Hoyt

Garry Kasparov
Summits – David Reynolds
The post American World – Fareed Zakaria

Carl Bernstein
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

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