Our American sojourn continues with a trip to Manhattan’s Gramercy Park and a visit to the esteemed, million-selling author Amor Towles! Amor is the writer of the bestselling titles Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow which was a recommended read of both Bill Gates and Barack Obama as well as appearing on a multitude of best of the year lists. We talked to him about reading the canon, inhaling James Bond and the amount of time you’re allowed before giving up on a book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Amor Towles – Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles – Rules of Civility

Edith Wharton – Collected Novels

Harold Bloom – American Canon

Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past

Paul Scott – Raj Quartet

Herman Melville – Moby Dick

Philip Roth – American Pastoral

Philip Roth – Human Stain

Ross Macdonald – Collection

Raymond Chandler – Big Sleep

Franklin W Dixon – Hardy Boys

Ray Bradbury – Stories

Agatha Christie – Collection

John Le Carre – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre – Honourable Schoolboy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude

Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment

Rhik Samadder – I Never Said I Loved You

Thomas Mann – Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks

Naguib Mahfouz – Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz – The Quarter

Harry Matthews – The Conversions

Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn

James Baldwin – Go Tell It To The Mountain

Flannery O’Connor – Complete Stories

Sloan Wilson – Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

David Goodis –

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