When writing a novel, I’m always trying to find ways to get closer to my characters and their world. These paths of approach are often non-literary—in the case of Intermezzo, I watched a lot of chess analysis online—but reading can be helpful too. What follows is a list of some of the books I read while I was writing or editing my own: each one of them helped me to think more deeply about my work and what I wanted it to be. The Karamazov Brothers Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr.
