
Who recommends it
- Robert J. SternbergInterview
I love Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle — all of them. He shows the way we all would like the world to be—a world where the clues are there if only you can make sense of them.
- Cedric VillaniInterview
Impossible to name one in particular. Fantômette by Georgia Chaulet; The Adventures of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Rouletabille; Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, Boris Vian, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne; and many Dinosaur books!
- Stephen WaltInterview
I’ve read all of Robertson Davies’ trilogies multiple times, along with the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, John Le Carré’s novels, Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, and I dip into my favorite biographies now and again. Other recurring guilty pleasures…
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