Anthony Hopkins's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 7 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2019)

Favorite books recommended by Anthony Hopkins, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/anthony-hopkins-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

The Rite

Graham Greene, Plato, Albert Einstein, and Christopher Hitchens, Hopkin’s tastes in the written word offer a glimpse into the rich inner life of one of today’s greatest living actors. · Buy on Amazon

Letters and Papers From Prison

Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Buy on Amazon

"I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief. If Dietrich Bonhoeffer…sacrificed his life in a Nazi concentration camp for his church, then who am I to refute anything?"

The Ascent of Ma

Jacob Bronowski · Buy on Amazon

"Bronowski said, ‘If we…try to reduce the human being to a number, we create an Auschwitz.’ In his book he’s actually standing in Auschwitz where he lost many members of his family where he said, ‘Because of certainty. Certainty is the killer."

Ideas & Opinions

Albert Einstein · Buy on Amazon

"Einstein believed in a non-personal God; believed in a mathematical intelligence in the back of the Cosmos…[He] was uncertain. He knew nothing. Yet he was probably one of the smartest geniuses of our time."

Monsignor Quixote

Graham Greene · Buy on Amazon

"A wonderful book by Graham Greene, who is a powerful Catholic."

God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens · Buy on Amazon

"A brilliant atheist, a brilliant man."

The Last Days of Socrates

Plato · Buy on Amazon

"I’m certain that I’m not certain. Socrates was told he was the wisest man of all and he said, ‘That’s impossible.’ He realized he knew nothing."

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