Ethan Hawke's Reading List
The author, most recently, of “Rules for a Knight,” says the best book about acting, indirectly at least, is “The Dude and the Zen Master,” by Jeff Bridges and his Zen teacher, Bernie Glassman.
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NYT By the Book column (2015-12-03).
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Greil Marcus · Buy on Amazon
""The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs," by Greil Marcus, was also pretty great."
Joseph Boyden · Buy on Amazon
"I love Joseph Boyden — "Three Day Road" was a punch to the gut."
Jeff Bridges · Buy on Amazon
"The best is "The Dude and the Zen Master," co-written by Jeff Bridges and his Zen teacher, Bernie Glassman. They get at what I love most about my profession."
Alec Guinness · Buy on Amazon
"There are great memoirs: Alec Guinness's "Blessings in Disguise," and Olivier's "On Acting.""
Laurence Olivier · Buy on Amazon
"There are great memoirs: Alec Guinness's "Blessings in Disguise," and Olivier's "On Acting.""
Klaus Kinski · Buy on Amazon
"The clear winner, though, is Klaus Kinski's "All I Need Is Love." Flip to any page and you will read about nervous breakdowns, scandalizing sex with ravishing people or some horrible anecdote about Werner Herzog."
Mark Twain · 1884 · Buy on Amazon
"I'm a sucker for "Huckleberry Finn." It's a rare book that can be so profound, political, incendiary and funny."
David Roberts · Buy on Amazon
"Whenever I dig into the true history of the Native American experience, my body wants to convulse in anger."
Randall Jarrell · Buy on Amazon
"Randall Jarrell's "The Animal Family" was read to me, and I've read it to my kids. That's the gold standard."
Herman Wouk · Buy on Amazon
""Youngblood Hawke," by Herman Wouk. My mother loved the book, and when she met a boy with the same last name as the protagonist, she fell instantly in love. That had a big impact on my life."
Ken Kesey · Buy on Amazon
"My hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." "At least I tried!""
Favorite books (2023)
Favorite books recommended by Ethan Hawke, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/ethan-hawke-favorite-books/.
Source: radicalreads.com
Joseph Boyden · Buy on Amazon
"Xavier Bird and Elijah Whiskeyjack, the protagonists of Joseph Boyden’s 2005 novel, are two Cree men who served as snipers in the Canadian army during World War I. I read the book in one sitting — literally could not put it down. It is a punch to the gut — an absolutely brilliant novel, not for the faint of heart."
Jeff Lemire · Buy on Amazon
"This is my favorite graphic novel. The Essex County stories, which follow three generations of a farming family in Ontario, helped me understand that the possibilities of the graphic novel reach beyond anything I had ever imagined. Simple, human, touching, and funny."
James McBride · Buy on Amazon
"In McBride’s National Book Award–winning novel, John Brown’s plot to raid Harper’s Ferry unfolds through the eyes of a young ex-slave who dresses himself as a girl to escape detection. Traveling ‘incog-negro,’ as he puts it, Henry Shackleford journeys with the militant abolitionist across the country. If you ask me, Mark Twain can kiss McBride’s butt."
David Roberts · Buy on Amazon
"The story of the Apache Wars needs to be told again and again until the names Geronimo and Cochise are as familiar to young American ears as Washington and Lincoln. Indeh would have been impossible to write without the brilliant research and writing David Roberts poured into Once They Moved Like the Wind . It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Southwest."
Patti Smith (also rec’d by Carrie Brownstein , Ethan Hawke , Florence Welch , Malcolm Gladwell , Marianne Faithfull , Marina Abramovic , Michael Stipe , Shirley Manson & St. Vincent ) · Buy on Amazon
"I had the great pleasure of interviewing Patti Smith recently at the Tribeca Film Festival. If you have any doubts that the punk pioneer is also one of the greatest living American poets, this book will put them to rest."