Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television, and theatre actress whose credits include the roles of Special Agent Dana Scully in FOX Television's long-running and critically-acclaimed drama series, The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' masterpiece The House of Mirth (2000), and Lady Dedlock in the very successful BBC production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.Her first novel, with Jeff Rovin, is the science fiction thriller A Vision of Fire.
One of Anderson's six favorite books, as shared with The Week magazine:
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganRead about the other books on the list.
This is a novel about the interconnected lives of many people, but Sasha, a record executive's passionate and sticky-fingered personal assistant, always struck me as the main character. She views the objects she steals as collectively expressing "the raw, warped core of her life," and it's heartbreaking. No wonder this novel won a Pulitzer.
A Visit From the Goon Squad is one of Julie Christie's seven favorite books.
Learn about the books that made a difference to Gillian Anderson.
--Marshal Zeringue
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