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Donna Leon's Reading List

The crime writer, whose latest Guido Brunetti mystery is “Unto Us a Son Is Given,” says Charles Dickens “will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation.”

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By the Book: Donna Leon (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-03-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Pictures From an Institution
Randall Jarrell · Buy on Amazon
"I can open it anywhere, and it will make me laugh. We recovering professors owe him an enormous debt for his merciless treatment of academia."
Cover of The Overstory
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"I read it too quickly a few months ago and want to see again, more closely and with greater attention, how he works his magic."
Cover of Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon
"The opening is a wham. Dickens will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation."
The Soul of the Octopus
Sy Montgomery · Buy on Amazon
"Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus" is a dream."
Cover of A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · Buy on Amazon
"Oh my, oh my, oh my: It wasn't the land of hope and glory, was it? Bless him for that."
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy · Buy on Amazon
"Books we might be surprised to find on shelves."
Warrior of Rome
Harry Sidebottom · Buy on Amazon
"He insisted, and 10 pages had me hooked. I spent last July devouring all of them."

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