To mark our quarter-century anniversary of creation, discovery and intellectual curiosity, we are delighted to launch ‘Twenty-five years of reading at Aesop’.

Throughout May, customers are invited to join us in celebrating twenty-five literary works of distinction. In each of Aesop's twenty-two Australian signature spaces, posters of generous proportions will depict the spines of the twenty-five titles on one side, and provide a brief synopsis of each on the reverse: a piece home to take home, should customers wish to discover more about the works and their respective authors. Alternatively, you can download the artwork here.

Each store will hold a single copy of each recommended title, to serve as a physical reference and to allow visitors to browse through the books while exploring our collection of skin, hair and body care products.

‘Twenty-five years of reading Aesop’ aims to share with like-minded others a selection of works we enjoy and admire; it is also intended as a gesture of gratitude to the authors whose work inspires us daily.

1988 - The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes
‘The sandstone is the bone and root of the coast.’

1989 - The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
‘Tonight, I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury.’

1990 - Daddy, We Hardly Knew You Germaine Greer
‘It is silly of me, a middle-aged woman, to call my dead father Daddy.’

1991 - The Famished Road Ben Okri
‘In the beginning there was a river.’

1992 - Leviathan Paul Auster
‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin.’

1993 - Remembering Babylon David Malouf
‘The boy had elaborated this scrap of make-believe out of a story in the fourth grade Reader; he was lost in it.’

1994 - What I Lived For Joyce Carol Oates
‘God erupted in thunder and shattering glass.’

1995 - Arabian Nights and Days Naguib Mahfouz
'Time gives a special knock inside and wakes him.'

1996 - Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
'I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.'

1997 - The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
'May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.'

1998 - Underworld Don DeLillo
'He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.'

1999 - Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
‘For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.’

2000 - White Teeth Zadie Smith
'Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.'

2001 - The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
'The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.'

2002 - Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
'Sing now, O Muse, of the recessive mutation on my fifth chromosome!'

2003 - What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
‘Yesterday, I found Violet’s letters to Bill.’

2004 - The Plot Against America Philip Roth
‘Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.’

2005 - Arthur and George Julian Barnes
‘A child wants to see.’

2006 - Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'They were standing before the glass door.'

2007 - On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
'Even when Edward and Florence were alone, a thousand unacknowledged rules still applied.'

2008 - Disquiet Julia Leigh
'They stood before the great gateway, all around an empty and open countryside, ugly countryside, flat mudploughed fields.'

2009 - The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk
'It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.'

2010 - Curfewed Night Basharat Peer
'I was born in winter in Kashmir.'

2011 - 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
'The taxi's radio was tuned to a classical FM broadcast.'

2012 - The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey
'Dead, and no one told me.'

‘The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.’
Lord Chesterfield