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Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments ...

The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the seismic effect of Sigrid Nunez, and wanting to write like Virginia Woolf ...

A psychologist's gripping guide to surviving dark nights of the soul offers both comfort and insight ...

The author and spoken word artist's delivery is full of tenderness and humour as she confronts the outdated notions of innocence that surround women ...

This tender satire of a dysfunctional American family's search for moral guidance is precisely what our times need ...

The author, whose family has been impacted by dementia, says provision in living wills could clarify intentions when a person declines to the point they are 'alive and dead all at once'

A father and son move to the Patagonian woods - but intensity wanes when a search for home becomes an obsessive quest for revenge ...

An exhilarating account of Bowie's spirituality and the quasi-religious nature of his work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar ...

A quietly revolutionary account of cohabiting captured a nation's heart - but what does it mean for the rest of the world?

This second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destruction ...