Table of Contents

CONTENTS Introduction Isabel Allende Maya Angelou Margaret Atwood W.H. Auden Jane Austen James Baldwin Honore de Balzac Ray Bradbury The Brontes Anton Chekhov Agatha Christie Colette Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Arthur Conan Doyle Ian Fleming Thomas Hardy Ernest Hemingway Victor Hugo Samuel Johnson Judith Kerr Stephen King Rudyard Kipling D.H. Lawrence Astrid Lindgren Jack London Hilary Mantel Margaret Mitchell Michel de Montaigne Haruki Murakami George Orwell Sylvia Plath Beatrix Potter Marcel Proust J.K. Rowling Vita Sackville-West George Bernard Shaw Zadie Smith Danielle Steel Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Dylan Thomas Mark Twain Kurt Vonnegut Edith Wharton E.B. White P.G. Wodehouse Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Index Visit the Rooms Acknowledgements

About the Author

Alex Johnson is a journalist, blogger and the author of A Book of Book Lists, Improbable Libraries, Bookshelf, and Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution. He runs the web sites Shedworking at www.shedworking.co.uk and Bookshelf at www.onthebookshelf.co.uk. Alex lives in St Albans, London with his wife, three children, and plenty of books from all over the world.