Olivia Williams's six best books

Olivia Williams made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, then later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998). She played Bruce Willis's wife in The Sixth Sense (1999). In 2010, she won acclaim for her performance as Ruth Lang in The Ghost Writer.

On television Williams portrayed Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets (2008) and Adelle DeWitt in Dollhouse.

One of her six best books, as told to the Daily Express:

VERNON GOD LITTLE
by DBC Pierre

Unputdownable. The descriptions of American society are so physical. It’s about the motivations of children, ruthless media people, paedophiles, policemen. It gets in there and gets dirty. On holiday a friend was laughing out loud. I started reading it over her shoulder and in the end we tore the book in half.

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue