Grateful thanks to Lionel Shriver for providing the elegant Foreword; and to book club member Ana Sampson for the Introduction, and the initial idea for the book. Thanks are also due to the entire team at Michael O’Mara Books, who assisted with the list of books included and many other elements of this title.
In addition, gratitude is due to the following contributors, who supplied the detailed entries on the 100 recommended titles. In alphabetical order:
Stephen Blake, Tim Collins, Dan Coxon, Helen Cumberbatch, Ben Davies, Lindsay Davies, Sarah Drinkwater, Juliana Foster, Eilidh Franses, Mike Gregory, Kate Gribble, Cathryn Harker, Maureen Harker, Andrew John, Paul Julien, Shelley Klein, Nicky Lander, Anna Marx, Chris Maynard, Sophie Middlemiss, Ben Olins, Kate Parker, Andy Pickford, Tess Read, Victoria Reed, Ana Sampson, Liz Scoggins, Anita Sethi, Rochelle Sibley, Eve Tindale, George Ttoouli, Helen Weaver, Sally Wilks, J. A. Wines, Steven Wines, and Jenny Wood.