Chelsea Handler's Reading List
The author, most recently, of “Uganda Be Kidding Me” is a fan of “Anna Karenina.” “I find Russian writers to be very charismatic storytellers; and that is where their charisma ends.”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Chelsea Handler (2014)
NYT By the Book column (2014-02-27).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"My brother-in-law gave me that book 15 years ago, and I was so moved by it I was scared to read anything else. Human will can be stronger than any elements, and where there is fortitude, there is great achievement."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Anna Karenina is a good jumping-off point into adult reading. I find Russian writers to be very charismatic storytellers."
Patrick Süskind · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
"A friend of mine sent me 'Perfume,' by Patrick Süskind, and I felt like I was reading a Choose Your Own Adventure, which happens to be my favorite genre."
Judy Blume · Buy on Amazon
"Anything by Judy Blume (specifically 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' and 'Forever . . . ')."
Judy Blume · Buy on Amazon
"Anything by Judy Blume (specifically 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' and 'Forever . . . ')."
Favorite books (2020)
Favorite books recommended by Chelsea Handler, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/chelsea-handler-favorite-books/.
Source: radicalreads.com
David Sedaris · Buy on Amazon
"David Sedaris is fucking hilarious and there’s nothing I prefer to do more than laugh. If this book doesn’t make you laugh, I’ll refund you the money."
James Walvin · Buy on Amazon
"This is a great, comprehensive introduction for the many people who don’t know the history of The Atlantic Slave Trade or the history of slavery. It walks you through who the architects of slavery were and more important, who the architects of the abolitionist movement were. It’s an integral part of our history that feels too ignored. It is painful, horrifying, but illustrative of the evil and the goodness that can live side by side."
Lennard Bickel · Buy on Amazon
"I love stories of survival and I love strong men. This is one man’s story of surviving in Antartica when he lost everyone and everything and still managed to make it back to his ship under the worst possible conditions and elements. What he survived, what he endured, and his will to live are themes I’ll never get tired of learning about. We have always lived among great people, but it’s an essential reminder that there are superior beings."
Joshua Foer · Buy on Amazon
"I didn’t love reading this book, but I loved what I learned from it — tons of different tools to memorize people’s names, to memorize numbers that are important, along with different ways to categorize things I need to remember to do. It has changed my life and made me embarrass myself much less when meeting someone twice."
Leo Tolstoy (also rec’d by Ernest Hemingway , Philip Roth & Susan Sontag ) · Buy on Amazon
"I don’t know if I have to expound on why I love this book, but everyone should read Tolstoy, and this was the first one of his works I read. So, it’s like a first boyfriend. Or my first Cabbage Patch Kid."
Edith Wharton · Buy on Amazon
"Edith Wharton’s use of language alone isn’t easily paralleled. She takes you into this woman’s life and makes you feel for her while showcasing her shallowness, materialism, and lack of honor. It is a timeless story we have seen play out for hundreds of years — yet, it feels like it would only apply to modern day society in the form of a Kardashian. Her turn of phrase and sentence structure are beautiful."
Rebecca Solnit · Buy on Amazon
"Rebecca Solnit goes deep with statistics, personal stories, and others’ accounts of how brutal this world can be for women, the history of how we’ve been treated, and what it will take to change the conversation: MEN. We need them to be as outraged as we are and join our fight."
David Daniels, M.D. · Buy on Amazon
"This book is great if you’re in love with yourself and can’t wait to find out more. It’s a personality evaluation with a list of numbers from one through nine and can keep you and your friends busy for hours! My psychiatrist introduced me to it and it has been endorsed by a large swath of the psychiatric community. It is not astrology."
Viktor Frankl · Buy on Amazon
"This book is one of those beautiful accounts of a terrible time in our history. His calm and sagaciousness, while witnessing one horror after another played out during his time in three separate concentration camps, is awe inspiring. He speaks to the strength of the human spirit and there is a sentence in the book that made me put it down and think — ‘I stopped asking myself what I expected out of life, and asked myself what life expected out of me.'"