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Anthony Doerr's Reading List

The author of “All the Light We Cannot See” read “The Sheltering Sky” when he was 11 or 12. “I was incredibly blessed, because neither my mother nor the local librarians ever said: ‘This is outside your age range, Tony. You can’t handle this.’”

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By the Book: Anthony Doerr (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-07-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · Buy on Amazon
"I just got to the part in Sapiens where Harari contends that our species owes its success to our ability to make fictions — hard for a novelist not to underline that section."
Lewis Thomas · Buy on Amazon
"The Lives of a Cell, by Lewis Thomas."
Cover of Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · Buy on Amazon
"Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson."
Cover of Microbe Hunters
Paul de Kruif · Buy on Amazon
"My all-time favorite might be Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif, a 1926 microbiology classic that brims with humor and fervor and wonder."
Cover of Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"Moby-Dick."
Anne Carson · Buy on Amazon
"Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red."
Cover of Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · Buy on Amazon
"Calvino's Invisible Cities."
Bill Watterson · Buy on Amazon
"Maybe the complete four-volume box set of Calvin and Hobbes? Volume 1 is right in front of me on the bottom shelf; just looking at it makes me want to open it."
Cover of The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles · Buy on Amazon
"I did read The Sheltering Sky when I was 11 or 12 years old."

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