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Eve Ensler's Reading List

The playwright and author, most recently, of “The Apology” would invite James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt and Anaïs Nin for dinner. “Topics might include: God, death, erotica, totalitarianism.”

By the Book: Eve Ensler (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-05-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · Buy on Amazon

""Mrs. Dalloway," by Virginia Woolf (reading again after I recently heard Michael Cunningham talk eloquently about it)."

No Friend but the Mountains

Behrouz Boochani · Buy on Amazon

"This is a stunning and devastating account of life on remote Manus Island. The writing is an astonishing mix of dreamlike poetry and piercingly political and psychological insight. I can't remember reading anything recently that has seized me like this."

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin · 1963 · Buy on Amazon

""The Fire Next Time," by James Baldwin. And read it again every year of your life. The text keeps changing and I realize that part of what makes Baldwin such a force of nature is his relationship to history."

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon

"Some of the books, plays, essays and poetry that have cracked me open include "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison."

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison · 1977 · Buy on Amazon

"Some of the books that have cracked me open include "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison."

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon

""Middlemarch," by George Eliot — one of the books that cracked me open."

Hiroshima

John Hersey · Buy on Amazon

"I read two books over and over — "Hiroshima," by John Hersey, and "Death Be Not Proud," by John Gunther. Guides to how to die with nobility and grace and how to survive after a nuclear attack. They prepared me for a lot."

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

"Can't wait for Ocean Vuong's first novel, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.""

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