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Bob Woodward's Reading List

The journalist, whose new book is "Fear: Trump in the White House," remembers reading "The Swiss Family Robinson" as a child: "It was, I believe, the first time I dropped out of my own world into another for a sustained period of time."

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By the Book: Bob Woodward (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-09-13).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of All the King's Men
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · Buy on Amazon
"my first read in college helped draw me to journalism"
Cover of Crossing to Safety
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner · Buy on Amazon
"Wallace Stegner's 1987 novel showing the lasting power of long-term friendships between two couples in academia"
Cover of Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese · Buy on Amazon
"Abraham Verghese's 2009 novel on empathy as a necessary force in the practice of medicine and life"
Night of Camp David
Fletcher Knebel · Buy on Amazon
"This summer I reread Night of Camp David, the 1965 novel by Fletcher Knebel. A United States president is thought to be mentally unbalanced; the book ends with some compelling twists."
The Other Woman
Daniel Silva · Buy on Amazon
"The Other Woman, by Daniel Silva. A classic international spy mole hunt — cerebral and muscular."
Smiley's People
John le Carre · Buy on Amazon
"Favorite and familiar John le Carre spy novels — especially Smiley's People."
Richard Nixon: The Life
John A. Farrell · Buy on Amazon
"John A. Farrell's excellent and penetrating 737-page biography"
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann D. Wyss · Buy on Amazon
"It was, I believe, the first time I dropped out of my own world into another for a sustained period of time — the transformation that only a book can provide."
Cover of Personal History
Personal History
Katharine Graham · Buy on Amazon
"An inscribed copy of Katharine Graham's Personal History, from Katharine Graham."

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