In an article entitled, "Read Any Good Books Lately?" found online at The New York Times, the paper surveyed 17 popular authors to enquire what they had been reading lately or planned to dig into this season. The choices by the authors are eclectic, but always interesting, and provide some great ideas for your own summer reading.
In brief, here are the results:
STEPHEN KING
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
NORA EPHRON
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
DAVE EGGERS
One Big Self by CD Wright
Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master's Portraits by Michael Taylor
Not on Our Watch by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
MICHAEL CRICHTON
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2 by PK Feyerabend
Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
URSULA K LE GUIN
The Cave by Jose Saramago
Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
The Blue Hour of the Day by Lorna Crozier
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
JANE SMILEY
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
COLM TOIBIN
Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
The End: Hamburg 1943 by Hans Erich Nossack
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
GARRY WILLS
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
Lincoln's Sword by Douglas Wilson
William James by Robert Richardson
EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni
GARY SHTEYNGART
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
Hotel De Dream by Edmund White
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
KATHRYN HARRISON
Gordon by Edith Templeton
Boyhood by JM Coetzee
Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter
ERIC FONER
Empires of the Atlantic World by JH Elliott
The Lincoln Nobody Knows by Richard N Current
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
NICOLE KRAUSS
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina
MARY GORDON
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann's by Rosetta Loy
Flower Children by Maxine Swann
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
The original article can be found online in the June 3, 2007, issue of The New York Times in the Book Review Section. See http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review.
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Comments: 10
I'd read and downloaded the article. And requested some of the books from bookmooch.
I recognized a few of those authors and was especially interested in the books they cared about.
It's interesting to see how some of the books these authors read are so different than the ones they write. Thanks for posting this Christine.