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Bill Maher's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 6 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Bill Maher, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/bill-maher-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Joseph Conrad (also rec’d by Patti Smith & Jim Morrison ) · Buy on Amazon
"My all-time favorite, even before Francis Ford Coppola turned it into Apocalypse Now. The ultimate topic, the ultimate metaphor. What great book couldn’t have been called Heart of Darkness ?"
S.J. Perelman · Buy on Amazon
"The man who wrote many Marx Brothers movies was the greatest wordsmith America has ever produced. This collection brings together his comic essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. You have to read him with a dictionary, but it’s worth it."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Buy on Amazon
"The fact that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have been ripped off as Ralph Kramden­/Ed Norton and Fred Flintstone/Barney Rubble should tell you something about why this first great novel endures."
Jay McInerney · Buy on Amazon
"Some say Jay McInerney partied too much and it hurt his output, but the fact that the party produced this brilliant, hysterically funny description of the party makes the partying worth it in my book. That the novel’s narrator is based on a young woman who, I’ve heard lately, grew up to become John Edwards’ mistress of course only makes it better."
Albert Goldman · Buy on Amazon
"Denounced as tabloid trash when first published, this 1981 bio is anything but. Goldman has a brilliant eye for detail and larger-than-what-you-see analysis. And the descriptions of the way this hillbilly lived are just laugh-out-loud funny."
Herman Melville (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , John Irving , Norman Mailer , Patti Smith , Penn Jillette , Ray Bradbury , Steve Jobs & Tilda Swinton ) · Buy on Amazon
"I haven’t actually read this one, but I’ve heard such good things I thought I should mention it."

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