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Brian Selznick's Reading List

As a boy, the author and illustrator Brian Selznick preferred consuming stories on screen: "I usually watched the movies of books I should have read."

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By the Book: Brian Selznick (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-02-22).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Summer
Edith Wharton · Buy on Amazon
"I stumbled upon her novel Summer, which shocked me with its honesty about sex and power, and I spent an entire year trying to read every single book she wrote. I felt this weird kinship with Edith Wharton."
Cover of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · Buy on Amazon
"Walter Isaacson's wonderful biography turns Leonardo from an icon into a human being. For me Leonardo becomes the most human in the explorations of his endless failures."
Cover of Rebecca
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 1938 · Buy on Amazon
"It's so good! It has one of the great opening lines in literature ('Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again') and the rest of the book is as good as that line."
My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett · Buy on Amazon
"His favorites became my favorites: My Father's Dragon, written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and illustrated by her stepmother, Ruth Chrisman Gannett"
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · Buy on Amazon
"the few books I remembered from my childhood, especially The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury"
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon
"I've always been drawn to stories about orphans: Pip from Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens"
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · Buy on Amazon
"Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett"
The Borrowers
Mary Norton · Buy on Amazon
"The most influential book I did read was probably The Borrowers, by Mary Norton. I basically read this as nonfiction. I made miniature furniture and left it for the Borrowers who lived in my house."
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White · Buy on Amazon
"Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White. It shows the importance of decency, friendship and language."
Cover of The Book of Dust
The Book of Dust
Philip Pullman · Buy on Amazon
"I can't wait to read The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman's prequel to His Dark Materials."

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