Hisham Matar: How could I have left out Proust?

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 Hisham Matar’s selections are now available, accompanied by an illustrated, numbered introductory note, signed by Hisham, and presented in a special anniversary tote bag (not available for general sale).

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Glück
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah 

Anniversary artwork by Klaussie Williams.