Dean Koontz's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “The City” is a fan of Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy: “Both offer voluptuous yet highly controlled language and profound moral purpose.”

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By the Book: Dean Koontz (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-07-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück · Buy on Amazon

"I'm especially charmed by the lyrical expressions and well-wrought cadences of poetry — currently, "The Wild Iris" and "Ararat," by Louise Glück, and "New & Selected Poems," by Donald Justice, all of which I've read many times."

Ararat

Louise Glück · Buy on Amazon

New & Selected Poems

Donald Justice · Buy on Amazon

"I'm especially charmed by the lyrical expressions and well-wrought cadences of poetry — currently "New & Selected Poems," by Donald Justice, all of which I've read many times."

The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis · Buy on Amazon

""The Abolition of Man," by C. S. Lewis, serves this purpose"

At the End of an Age

John Lukacs · Buy on Amazon

""At the End of an Age," by John Lukacs; one of Andrew Roberts's excellent histories; or a good book on quantum mechanics or chaos theory."

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · Buy on Amazon

"The first book to enchant me was Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows.""

Intellectuals

Paul Johnson · Buy on Amazon

"His portraits of Rousseau, Sartre, Edmund Wilson and others are sharply pointed but accurate, and at times darkly humorous."

The Complete Stories

Flannery O'Connor · 1971 · Buy on Amazon

"No one has written better about the reality of evil. Few have written as well, with such sharp-edged compassion, about the weaknesses and follies of humanity, about the operation of grace in our lives."

My Life Among the Deathworks

Philip Rieff · Buy on Amazon

"I'm rereading "My Life Among the Deathworks," by the cultural theorist Philip Rieff."

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