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Colm Toibin's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Nora Webster” and “Brooklyn,” soon to be adapted to film, wishes he were Leopold Bloom: “I envy all the fun he had when he went to Nighttown and got involved in gender-bendering.”

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By the Book: Colm Toibin (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-10-01).

Source: www.nytimes.com

George Moore · Buy on Amazon
"George Moore from the past ('Esther Waters' is his masterpiece)"
Eugene McCabe · Buy on Amazon
"Eugene McCabe from the present ('Death and Nightingales' is his masterpiece)"
Benedict Kiely · Buy on Amazon
"It's a perfect piece of literature and encapsulates the sadness and terror of what went on in Northern Ireland during what is euphemistically called 'the Troubles.'"
William Kennedy · Buy on Amazon
"All the oxygen was gone from the air. It was thrilling."
Jaroslav Hasek · Buy on Amazon
"it is the best antiwar novel I know, hilariously dramatizing the pointlessness of empires and the foolishness of military goals and the sheer absurdity and cruelty of people waging war on each other."
Cover of Hamlet
William Shakespeare · Buy on Amazon
"Hamlet gave me permission to mourn my father's death, to make smart remarks to teachers, to make fun of my betters, to procrastinate... I would never have been able to do any of these things with the same intensity had I not read that book when I was 15."
Cover of Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · Buy on Amazon
"At Columbia, I teach books that I care about... I get to revisit 19th-century novels such as 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'The Portrait of a Lady' and 'Middlemarch.'"
Cover of The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · Buy on Amazon
"I get to revisit 19th-century novels such as 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'The Portrait of a Lady' and 'Middlemarch.'"
Cover of Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon
"I get to revisit 19th-century novels such as 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'The Portrait of a Lady' and 'Middlemarch.'"

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