Time Travellers Wife, Water for Elephants, Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolat, Addition,
Suite Francaise, Eat Pray Love,
etc.,

I'm a bifocated reader: which means I have no less than five books on my bedside table of various genres. At the moment the collection includes: Virginia Woolfe's "Mrs Dalloway," Italo Calvino "As on a Winters Night, A Traveller" some book by Steven Carroll, Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach", Andre Maikin's "Le Testament Francaise"....

anywhere where I can't be distracted by the guilt of unfinished household chores.

Would it be be too egocentric to say 'myself'?

Audrey Niffenigger, Kate Granville, Ian McEwan, Sara Gruen, Helen Garner, Andre Maikin.