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Adam Hochschild's Reading List

The historian, whose new book is the Rose Pastor Stokes biography “Rebel Cinderella,” treasures his first-edition copy of “The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair: “This one gave us our pure food and drug laws.”

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By the Book: Adam Hochschild (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-03-12).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Radetzky March
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth · Buy on Amazon
"Such a multilayered portrait of the vast, creaky, fragile Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of collapse."
Cover of The Trial
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · Buy on Amazon
"He fully foresaw Stalin's show trials 20 years before they happened."
The Gypsies
Jan Yoors · Buy on Amazon
"As a 12-year-old boy in Europe in the early 1930s, he ran away with a band of Gypsies, lived with them on and off for 10 years, and, decades later, wrote this luminous memoir."
Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Buy on Amazon
"for its sense of justice as something deeper than the law. Although Huck believes he'll be doomed to hell for doing so, he still decides to help Jim."
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain · Buy on Amazon
"dazzled me with its evocation of the madness of the Iraq war, all seen through the prism of the halftime show at a Dallas Cowboys game."
Cover of The Power Broker
The Power Broker
Robert Caro · 1974 · Buy on Amazon
"an extraordinary achievement that should shame the hundreds of reporters and editorial writers who naively glorified Moses over the decades."
Cover of The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope · Buy on Amazon
"the story of a financial con man who goes into politics."
Cover of The Jungle
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · Buy on Amazon
"Who says books can't change the world? This one gave us our pure food and drug laws."

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