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Amor Towles's Reading List

“My wife gave me the first edition of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ to be published in English (in 1886),” says the novelist Amor Towles, whose new book is “The Lincoln Highway.” “That the edition was in translation was just as well, since I don’t read a word of Russian.”

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By the Book: Amor Towles (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-09-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · Buy on Amazon
"I enjoyed rereading the book immensely. In picking up The Sun Also Rises today, we have the opportunity to read the book as if it were newly released, and to be amply rewarded for doing so."
Harry Mathews · Buy on Amazon
"In Cigarettes he gives us a sly, inventive and entertaining novel which is a racy investigation of midcentury New York society."
Cover of Go Tell It on the Mountain
Cover of The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 1953 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson · Buy on Amazon
"We had great fun reading Erik Larson's rip-roaring description of Churchill's first year as prime minister."
Erik Larson · Buy on Amazon
"We had great fun reading Erik Larson's rip-roaring description of Churchill's first year as prime minister."
Cover of War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"My wife gave me the first edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace to be published in English (in 1886)."

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