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Daniel Silva's Reading List

The author of the Gabriel Allon thrillers, including the latest, “The Black Widow,” loves F. Scott Fitzgerald and named his son Nicholas after Nick Carraway from “The Great Gatsby.” But his daughter is Lily — “not Daisy or Jordan or Myrtle.”

By the Book: Daniel Silva (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-09-01).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · Buy on Amazon

"I reread Lolita and once again marveled at Nabokov's amazing, feverish, riotous sentences. Only Nabokov could make the opening of a freezer door sound like poetry."

The Quiet American

Graham Greene · 1955 · Buy on Amazon

"Greene's prose was cooler and more economical than Nabokov's, but no less brilliant."

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene · Buy on Amazon

1984

George Orwell · 1949 · Buy on Amazon

"Orwell's 1984 is my favorite book, with The Quiet American and The Sheltering Sky a very close second and third."

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon

"They are good books to be stuck with; one might never tire of such luminous, shimmering prose."

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles · Buy on Amazon

Notes on a Scandal

Zoe Heller · 2003 · Buy on Amazon

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey · Buy on Amazon

"My favorite childhood book was Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey."

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 1939 · Buy on Amazon

"John Steinbeck made me want to become a writer."

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