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Bruce Springsteen's Reading List

The musician and author of the new picture book "Outlaw Pete" likes reading about cosmology: "I find men and women struggling to answer the deepest questions we can ask freeing."

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By the Book: Bruce Springsteen (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-10-30).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"I just finished Moby-Dick, which scared me off for a long time due to the hype of its difficulty. I found it to be a beautiful boy's adventure story and not that difficult to read. I never wanted it to end."
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Buy on Amazon
"Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It simply touched on so many aspects of human love."
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon
"I like the Russians, the Chekhov short stories, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. I never read any of them until the past four years, and found them to be thoroughly psychologically modern. Personal favorites: The Brothers Karamazov."
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"Personal favorites: The Brothers Karamazov and, of course, Anna Karenina."
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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · Buy on Amazon
"Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian remains a watermark in my reading. It's the combination of Faulkner and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns that gives the book its spark for me."
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · Buy on Amazon
"The summer always makes me want to pick up Leaves of Grass for a while and sit on the front porch. I come away happier."
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Life
Keith Richards · Buy on Amazon
"it's hard to beat Keith Richards's love of music that shines through in Life."
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Chronicles
Bob Dylan · Buy on Amazon
"Of course I loved Bob Dylan's Chronicles. It made me proud to be a musician."
Mystery Train
Greil Marcus · Buy on Amazon
"At the top of my list remains Greil Marcus's Mystery Train"
Last Train to Memphis
Peter Guralnick · Buy on Amazon
"followed closely by Peter Guralnick's Last Train to Memphis"
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Buy on Amazon
"Cormac McCarthy's The Road."
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · Buy on Amazon
"I read The Grapes of Wrath very late, long after I'd written the song Ghost of Tom Joad. However, it ended up being everything I'd hoped it to be."
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow · Buy on Amazon
"I loved The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow, and someone just gave me Henderson the Rain King, so that may be up next."
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The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Buy on Amazon
"The book that turned me on to philosophy was Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy."

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