Alan Gilbert's Reading List

The conductor and music director of The New York Philharmonic says that after his cameo appearance on “30 Rock,” he read Tina Fey’s “Bossypants”: “It is brilliant, insightful and spot on in its crazy observations about life.”

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By the Book: Alan Gilbert (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-01-14).

Source: www.nytimes.com

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson · Buy on Amazon

"I've read almost everything he's written, and once again this one has totally captivated me. It's full of fascinating information."

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon

"I am actually making my way through "War and Peace" for the third time. It's been a slow, several-month process, but I am loving the rediscovery of this masterpiece that really says it all."

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon

"I also love "Crime and Punishment.""

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann · Buy on Amazon

"it is a great, great piece of literature in and of itself, but the way it brings the creative musical explosion of Leverkühn/Schoenberg to life is unbelievably powerful."

Indivisible by Four

Arnold Steinhardt · Buy on Amazon

"this insider's view is told in such a direct and honest way that it speaks not only to musicians, who can identify with the "musicianly" aspects, but really to anybody who is interested in how people get along in life."

Bossypants

Tina Fey · Buy on Amazon

"that was a book that truly made me laugh out loud, not just once, but many, many times. It is brilliant, insightful and spot on in its crazy observations about life."

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne · Buy on Amazon

"Now that I am reading them to our kids I am appreciating them, not anew but for the first time. They have a wonderful warmth and whimsy."

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