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Andrew Mccarthy's Reading List

The actor and writer, whose new book is the memoir “Brat,” got his start as the Artful Dodger in a high school production of “Oliver!,” and would like to come full circle: “But as I’m approaching the appropriate age, my inability to carry a tune remains a stumbling block, so my dream appears unlikely to be realized.”

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By the Book: Andrew Mccarthy (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-05-13).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Working
Robert Caro · Buy on Amazon
"It's comforting to know that the magic is in the sweat."
Cover of The Stranger
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · Buy on Amazon
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux · Buy on Amazon
"Theroux's candor and professionalism relaxed me. His idea to go, go alone, go far, don't come back for a long time — it didn't just make sense to me, it changed my life."
Cover of Born Standing Up
Born Standing Up
Steve Martin · 2007 · Buy on Amazon
"I thought Steve Martin's memoir, Born Standing Up, captured the unconscious 'knowing' that many uniquely successful people possess in youth."
Off the Road
Jack Hitt · Buy on Amazon
"It inspired me to do the same and began my life in wanderlust."
Cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · Buy on Amazon
"The notion that humans are the only species on the planet who create fiction kind of blew my mind."
Cover of Stoner
Stoner
John Williams · 1965 · Buy on Amazon
"Books like John Williams's Stoner are the books I find stay with me longest and cut deepest."
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy · Buy on Amazon
A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre · Buy on Amazon
"Which sent me reading about the ultimate double agent, Kim Philby, in Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends."

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