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Daniel Handler's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the novel “We Are Pirates” (and, as Lemony Snicket, numerous children’s books) likes to read Miss Manners. “She’s an extremely useful philosopher, and I consult her frequently, in order to behave better.”

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By the Book: Daniel Handler (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-01-22).

Source: www.nytimes.com

William Maxwell · Buy on Amazon
"I've read Time Will Darken It 10 times, and I'm still not done."
Richard Hughes · Buy on Amazon
"A High Wind in Jamaica narrowly beats out Sabatini's Captain Blood. It adheres to a theory of mine that putting children in a genre piece makes it more interesting."
Emily St. John Mandel · Buy on Amazon
"I get slightly angry when I finish any good book — I'm miffed that I'm not reading it anymore. The last good book I read was Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven."
Dino Buzzati · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite book was, and sort of is, Dino Buzzati's The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, a fairly obscure book."
Edward Gorey · Buy on Amazon
"It was the first book I bought with my own money, and it opened up a curious and shady world — you know, the one we all live in — I am still exploring."
Cover of How to Cure a Fanatic
Amos Oz · Buy on Amazon
"Amos Oz's How to Cure a Fanatic is somewhere in the Venn diagram where politics and religion meet. And it's short, so I can recommend it to people without seeming preachy."

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