Édouard Louis: Love, I mean

To mark its twentieth anniversary, the London Review Bookshop has invited twenty writers and friends to name five indispensable books for navigating the next twenty years. Twenty limited edition bundles of Édouard Louis’s selections are now available, accompanied by an illustrated, numbered introductory note, signed by Édouard, and presented in a special anniversary tote bag (not available for general sale).

Light in August by William Faulkner
Cassandra by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray 
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
Decreation by Anne Carson 

Anniversary artwork by Klaussie Williams.