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David Leavitt's Reading List

The author of “The Two Hotel Francforts” was struck reading “Middlemarch” in Rome at age 20. “That feeling of being unequal to antiquity — no one has ever described it so well as Eliot.”

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By the Book: David Leavitt (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-06-26).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"novels I return to again and again, with joy and awe."
The Gate of Angels
Penelope Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"novels I return to again and again, with joy and awe."
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"novels I return to again and again, with joy and awe."
Patrick Melrose novels
Edward St. Aubyn · Buy on Amazon
"I was floored by Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels."
The Surprise of Cremona
Edith Templeton · Buy on Amazon
"probably my favorite book by a non-Italian about Italy."
The Stones of Florence
Mary McCarthy · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Christ Stopped at Eboli
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi · Buy on Amazon
"the work of 20th-century Italian literature by which I am most moved and humbled."
Cover of The Radetzky March
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth · Buy on Amazon
The Emigrants
W. G. Sebald · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo · Buy on Amazon
"because it provides such a frank, compassionate, unsparing portrayal of the experience of poverty."
The Little Disturbances of Man
Grace Paley · Buy on Amazon
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · Buy on Amazon

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