Diana Nyad's Reading List
The long-distance swimmer and author of the memoir “Find a Way” hid her love of German literature from her mother, who lived through the Nazi occupation of France: “She threatened to never talk to me again.”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Diana Nyad (2015)
NYT By the Book column (2015-10-08).
Source: www.nytimes.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon
"To nestle into a worn leather club chair and smooth out the first pristine page of "The Great Gatsby" or "Cutting for Stone" is to transcend into a world of dialogue and unexpected turns and essence of humanity that feels like heaven itself."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"To nestle into a worn leather club chair and smooth out the first pristine page of "Cutting for Stone" is to transcend into a world of dialogue and unexpected turns and essence of humanity that feels like heaven itself."
Brian Greene · Buy on Amazon
"Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss and Brian Greene, with his substantial "The Elegant Universe," pull me in."
Lawrence Krauss · Buy on Amazon
"I took four months to read Krauss's "A Universe From Nothing," because most every sentence required putting the book down and attempting to fathom what I had just read."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Most recently, "The Boys in the Boat" engaged me from first to last word."
Laura Hillenbrand · Buy on Amazon
"Laura Hillenbrand, first with "Seabiscuit" and then with "Unbroken," takes the nonfiction of sport and adventure and survival through the compelling twists and turns of a grand tale of fiction. I run to read whatever Hillenbrand puts to paper."
Laura Hillenbrand · Buy on Amazon
"Laura Hillenbrand, first with "Seabiscuit" and then with "Unbroken," takes the nonfiction of sport and adventure and survival through the compelling twists and turns of a grand tale of fiction. I run to read whatever Hillenbrand puts to paper."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"A book that touched me deeply at the time, in my teens, the story having stayed with me all these years, is "Endurance." The Antarctic dramas of Ernest Shackleton are forefront in my imagination."
Mary Oliver · Buy on Amazon
"I have since become freakish about reading, slowly and deliberately, every Oliver word. I tend to give Oliver's books of poetry as gifts, picturing the recipient spellbound as I have been."
Thomas Mann · Buy on Amazon
"I was swept away upon a time by Hans Castorp in "The Magic Mountain.""
Jon Krakauer · Buy on Amazon
"I find that the real-life heroes of such books as Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" just can't be matched by fictional heroes."
Mark Twain · 1884 · Buy on Amazon
"I would pick out "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and slip under Mark Twain's spell for the entire afternoon, my eyes scanning the bold print as if imbibing some magical potion."
Marcel Proust · Buy on Amazon
"If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? In college I read "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" in French. Proust's epic work made a deep impression on me."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"The new "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" comes close."