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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

Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Hands down, one of the greatest I've ever read."
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."
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
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
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."
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
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"
Quincy Troupe · Buy on Amazon
"my favorite is Quincy Troupe's book with Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography."
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."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"A first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"The Secret Garden (very important)"
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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