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Anjelica Huston's Reading List

The actor and author of the memoirs “A Story Lately Told” and “Watch Me” says she finds it hard to read books about acting: “I prefer doing it.”

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By the Book: Anjelica Huston (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-12-11).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Nora Webster
Colm Toibin · Buy on Amazon
"I loved Brooklyn."
Almost Famous Women
Megan Mayhew Bergman · Buy on Amazon
"I've just finished a lovely book called Almost Famous Women, by Megan Mayhew Bergman — semi-fictional stories based on factual characters. The story of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra is heartbreaking."
Cover of Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"I reread Anna Karenina not too long ago, and it is mighty."
Cover of Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon
"For sheer language and character, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations ranks very high."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 · Buy on Amazon
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is such a powerful book."
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Buy on Amazon
"Love in the Time of Cholera is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic."
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · Buy on Amazon
"Lonesome Dove was such a great book."
Blue Nights
Joan Didion · Buy on Amazon
"I also loved Joan Didion's Blue Nights. It's terribly sad and beautiful."
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005 · Buy on Amazon
"And of course, The Year of Magical Thinking."
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The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is very good."
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Picture
Lillian Ross · Buy on Amazon
"Picture, by Lillian Ross, is a wonderfully funny and brilliantly astute document about the making of my father's film The Red Badge of Courage."
Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima · Buy on Amazon
"Spring Snow has a love scene under some cherry blossom trees that is exquisite."
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A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor · Buy on Amazon
"Paddy Leigh Fermor's books on travels in the Balkans and Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, Kurdistan and the Caribbean."
World Made by Hand
James Howard Kunstler · Buy on Amazon
"James Howard Kunstler's dystopian novel World Made by Hand."

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