Ava asked Alan Moore:

And I hope of course thee hear us.. What are the three essential books you would recommend to us strong, Harpo-types?

Alan Moore Well, as long as you realise that this answer is completely arbitrary and just happens to include three or possibly eight books that happen to be passing through my mind at the moment, then I’d say that everyone should read B. Catling’s The Vorrh, just for its psychotic poetry. They should also read Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman for its unforgettable Irish eternity. They should read Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, not because it’s her best book but just to remind them of when books like that were possible. They should read Michael Moorcock’s Mother London for its enormous bombsite heart, and Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell – Scarlet Tracings for its innovation and its frenetic lowlife energy. And that’s just the fiction. Otherwise, they should read Steve Aylett’s The Heart of the Original because we all need a good telling-off; they should read John Higgs’ history of the 20th century, Stranger Than We Can Imagine, if they want to stand any chance of understanding the 21st; and all women and men should be compelled to read Bridget Christie’s brilliantly insightful enquiry into the state of modern feminism, A Book for Her, which is all about periods or something, I don’t know, I was thinking about cars and football and wasn’t really paying that much attention.

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