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Dick Cavett's Reading List

The author of “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks” is a great fan of rereading. “We’d all have been better off to have read half as many books. Twice.”

By the Book: Dick Cavett (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-12-18).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr · Buy on Amazon

"John Lahr's stellar biography of Tennessee Williams."

Act One

Moss Hart · Buy on Amazon

"Hands down, Moss Hart's "Act One.""

Harpo Speaks!

Harpo Marx · Buy on Amazon

"Also best is "Harpo Speaks!""

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis · Buy on Amazon

"When being reread, perhaps my all-time favorite comic novel, Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim," provides that most recent laugh."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · Buy on Amazon

"Easy. "Huckleberry Finn." The book Hemingway said all American literature after it descends from."

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · Buy on Amazon

"When I was a tiny boy, my dad read to me, and year after year I demanded "Treasure Island.""

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle · Buy on Amazon

"The tales still make great reading at night by a fireplace."

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon

"I raced through the complete tales, from morn until "lights out," as fast as I did years later with "War and Peace," laid up with the measles."

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