Rosamund Pike chooses her favourite books for Dior's new Book Tote Club
In a nod to its beloved Book Tote, Dior has launched a new YouTube series celebrating reading. The Dior Book Tote Club sees famous friends of the brand talk through the books that have had the biggest impact on their lives – and we'll be watching every episode immediately.
First up is British actress Rosamund Pike, who opens up about her love of Joan Didion, and explains why she cannot get on board with speed reading (we're with you on that one, Rosamund).
Strolling around Hatchards, London's oldest bookshop, after closing time, Rosamund talks through some of her favourite titles. Her list includes Jack Kerouac's On The Road, which she read as a teenager, Joan Didion's book of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem ("She is one of the most concise and pertinent observers of people," Pike says) and Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life.
"This is truly one of the most brilliant, devastating, magnificent novels I have ever read," she says of the latter. "It's a book that will make you cry. I don't know how she wrote this book. It's one of these books that makes you think, 'How did this come out of you?' It's a book I didn't want to leave behind."
Pike also selects Barnaby Barford's photobook The Apple Is Everything due to her love of the fruit, and opens up about how she has recently discovered graphic novels, choosing Moms by Yeong-shin Ma about "women in their fifties falling out of love with their husbands".
Rosamund also says that she will always turn to Thomas Hardy when she's away from home and missing England, dropping The Mayor of Casterbridge into her Book Tote.
"Books move you but it's also really wonderful when books make you laugh," she adds. "The wonderful thing about being in a bookshop is that you can travel the world while sitting still."
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