We know it is a little unfair asking people, writers, to pick one work of fiction that has left an impact on them. We understand this only happens when you are young. As you keep reading and keep getting older, the books start affecting you in many different ways. Till comes a point where it becomes nearly impossible to tell which book stayed with you in what particular way.

Then, as the famous quote goes, "there is no reading, there is only rereading". With time, one keeps discovering new meanings in old texts, because that we know is a mark of great literature.

Our Special Report today asks six writers to talk about their "book of fiction". Only one of them writes about an autobiography instead, because it reads so much like fiction.

Here is for your reading pleasure.

I.A. Rehman on Umrao Jan Ada: A modern piece of writing