Anne Lamott's Reading List
The author of “Help Thanks Wow” is a fan of gossip magazines. “If people call when I am reading The Enquirer, I say, . . . ‘I’m just lying here reading the new New Yorker.’ ”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Anne Lamott (2012)
NYT By the Book column (2012-11-21).
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Alethea Black · Buy on Amazon
"a wonderful collection of stories by Alethea Black, “I Knew You’d Be Lovely,” which reminds me so much of the late, great Laurie Colwin."
Katherine Boo · Buy on Amazon
"“Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Katherine Boo, about life in a Mumbai slum. It’s nonfiction that is as riveting as a great novel — so absolutely exquisite that it made me sort of sick."
Adam Hochschild · Buy on Amazon
"It’s the same with Adam Hochschild’s “To End All Wars,” about World War I. Just sickening."
Junot Díaz · 2007 · Buy on Amazon
"Junot Díaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is extraordinary."
Douglas Foster · Buy on Amazon
"“After Mandela,” by Douglas Foster, is exquisite, an epic work of nonfiction about South Africa’s struggle for freedom after apartheid."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"“A Wrinkle in Time” saved me because it so captured the grief and sense of isolation I felt as a child."
Kenneth Lamott · Buy on Amazon
"It would be my late father, Kenneth Lamott’s, nonfiction work, “Anti-California: Report From Our First Parafascist State,” on the years when Ronald Reagan was governor."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Two pages into “The Poisonwood Bible,” “Middlemarch” and “In the Garden of Beasts,” I said, “I’m in.”"
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Two pages into “The Poisonwood Bible,” “Middlemarch” and “In the Garden of Beasts,” I said, “I’m in.”"
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Two pages into “The Poisonwood Bible,” “Middlemarch” and “In the Garden of Beasts,” I said, “I’m in.”"
E. B. White · Buy on Amazon
"I so loved E.B. White as a child — “Stuart Little,” “Charlotte’s Web.”"
E.B. White · Buy on Amazon
"I so loved E.B. White as a child — “Stuart Little,” “Charlotte’s Web.”"
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"My father hated Christians, so I didn’t read the Narnia books until I was a grown-up. They’re actually brilliant."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"I read my son “A Wrinkle in Time,” E.B. White, Roald Dahl and “Harry Potter.”"
Laurie Colwin · Buy on Amazon
"Laurie Colwin, after reading and foisting “Happy All the Time” many times."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"“Nine Stories” blew me away — I can still remember reading “For Esmé — With Love and Squalor” for the first time, and just weeping with the poignancy of the damaged soldier and the young girl."
Anne Lamott · Buy on Amazon
"I guess I like “Operating Instructions,” “Bird by Bird” and “Traveling Mercies” the most, because they have helped people the most."
Anne Lamott · Buy on Amazon
"I guess I like “Operating Instructions,” “Bird by Bird” and “Traveling Mercies” the most, because they have helped people the most."
Anne Lamott · Buy on Amazon
"I guess I like “Operating Instructions,” “Bird by Bird” and “Traveling Mercies” the most, because they have helped people the most."
Thomas Merton · 1948 · Buy on Amazon
"I loved “The Seven Storey Mountain,” by Thomas Merton."
Ann Patchett · Buy on Amazon
"Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder.” I am about to head out on book tour, and this book seems like an ideal blend of highly intelligent and readable."