Linda Greenlaw's list

Linda Greenlaw is the best-selling author of The Hungry Ocean, The Lobster Chronicles, and All Fishermen Are Liars. Her debut novel, Slipknot, is out this summer from Hyperion. She contributed "The List" to The Week magazine this week.

One of her titles:

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

An enlightening and entertaining chronicle of our planet from the Big Bang to the discoveries of contemporary scientists. Bryson contributes great insight into some of the most perplexing questions about where we are and how we got here.

Read Greenlaw's full list.

Visit Linda Greenlaw's website and learn more about Slipknot.

--Marshal Zeringue