05bkr Bythebook_davis's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Can’t and Won’t” abandoned reading Harry Potter alongside her son: “I found the writing flat and shallow, and the characters less than interesting.”

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By the Book: 05bkr Bythebook_davis (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-04-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman · Buy on Amazon

"The writing is very good — you could see that right away, beginning with the first sentence — and the books are intellectually and imaginatively rich."

Ulysses

James Joyce · 1922 · Buy on Amazon

"The only way I could ever read Joyce's Ulysses was to return to it again and again — eventually I read it from start to finish."

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · Buy on Amazon

"Some of the books and authors that meant the most to me are not surprising — C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, Frances Hodgson Burnett"

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