Diane Keaton's Reading List

The actress and author of “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty” describes listening to Patti Smith’s audiobook of “Just Kids” as “a revelation” — “What is it about her voice? The way she uses her words and makes them sing?”

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By the Book: Diane Keaton (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-05-01).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Blind

Sophie Calle · Buy on Amazon

"It's a reminder of one of the greatest gifts of life — the gift of seeing."

The Family of Man

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"Along the way I began collecting books like "The Family of Man.""

The Reason I Jump

Naoki Higashida · Buy on Amazon

"What are you planning to read next? Several months ago my friend David Ebershoff sent me "The Reason I Jump," by Naoki Higashida, a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with autism at age 5."

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank · Buy on Amazon

"I couldn't read another word because I was crying as if I was still 13-year-old Diane sitting in bed with a glass of 7Up reading the end of "The Diary of Anne Frank.""

Just Kids

Patti Smith · Buy on Amazon

"Last Christmas, driving from L.A. to San Francisco, I listened to Patti Smith's "Just Kids." It was a revelation. Or rather, she was."

The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

David Shenk · Buy on Amazon

"This book is a terrifying, yet deeply moving exploration of an epidemic that stripped my mother of her life paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, and finally word by word."

Bossypants

Tina Fey · Buy on Amazon

"What was the last book to make you laugh? Tina Fey's "Bossypants.""

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