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Bette Midler's Reading List

“I love Dickens and Twain above all,” says the actor and singer Bette Midler, whose latest children’s book is “The Tale of the Mandarin Duck.”

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By the Book: Bette Midler (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-12-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"Hands down, one of the greatest I've ever read."

The Parade's Gone By

Kevin Brownlow · Buy on Amazon

"Yesterday I finished The Parade's Gone By, by Kevin Brownlow, and it finally fell apart; it's about the silent movie era. I bought it in the '70s, and finally got around to reading it. Unforgettable."

Southern California: An Island on the Land

Carey McWilliams · Buy on Amazon

"A history of how Los Angeles was marketed to the unsuspecting in the Midwest, and the various scandals and horrors the local scalawags visited upon them when they arrived."

Cover of The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois · Buy on Amazon

"What book should everybody read before the age of 21? W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk"

Cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs · Buy on Amazon

"What book should everybody read before the age of 21? Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities."

Who the Devil Made It

Peter Bogdanovich · Buy on Amazon

"I devour oral histories on movies and music: Peter Bogdanovich's Who the Devil Made It"

Tina Fey · Buy on Amazon

"Tina Fey's book is killer."

Jean Stein · Buy on Amazon

"I loved Jean Stein's last book, West of Eden."

Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley · Buy on Amazon

"Alex Haley's Malcolm X made a huge impression on me"

Cover of Life

Keith Richards · Buy on Amazon

"Keith Richards's Life? I went out the next day and bought a guitar."

Patti Smith · Buy on Amazon

"M Train, by Patti Smith"

Miles: The Autobiography

Quincy Troupe · Buy on Amazon

"my favorite is Quincy Troupe's book with Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography."

The Meaning of Mariah

Mariah Carey · Buy on Amazon

"I LOVED Mariah Carey's autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah. She sent it to me with a box of Kleenex."

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"A first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

The Secret Garden

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"The Secret Garden (very important)"

The Last of the Just

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"When I was 12, I read The Last of the Just and I never got over it."

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