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Alan Lightman's Reading List

By the Book: Alan Lightman (2023)

NYT By the Book column (2023-03-09).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Pope at War

David I. Kertzer · Buy on Amazon

"David Kertzer's magnificent history of Mussolini and Pope Pius XII during World War II"

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866 · Buy on Amazon

Far Away and Long Ago

W. H. Hudson · Buy on Amazon

"contains the most gorgeous descriptions of flora, fauna and landscape that I've ever read."

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1925 · Buy on Amazon

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · Buy on Amazon

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · Buy on Amazon

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi · Buy on Amazon

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino · Buy on Amazon

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon

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