Secret Library is an occasional feature in which writers nominate three books they like that don’t get the attention they deserve. The only stipulations are that they have to have been published at one point in English and should not have the visibility of a classic – but the definition of classic is a little elastic (and also genre-specific): writers like Austen, Dickens and Christie are out but we have welcomed Updike and Somerset Maugham.
Here’s the series so far:
Cafethinking 