Garry Wills's Reading List

The author of “Nixon Agonistes,” “John Wayne’s America,” “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” “Reagan’s America” and, most recently, “Why Priests?” considers Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” “the best political writing of our time.”

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By the Book: Garry Wills (2013)

NYT By the Book column (2013-02-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Through the Eye of a Needle

Peter Brown · Buy on Amazon

"Peter Brown, “Through the Eye of a Needle.” Puts a stethoscope to the fourth through sixth centuries C.E."

Doonesbury

Garry Trudeau · Buy on Amazon

"Wodehouse deserves no guilt, but is a constant pleasure. So is “Doonesbury,” the best political writing of our time."

Works of John Ruskin

John Ruskin · Buy on Amazon

"The Cook and Wedderburn 39-volume “Works of John Ruskin,” the perfect scholarly edition, on the east wall of my office."

Signature Wound

Garry Trudeau · Buy on Amazon

"Garry Trudeau’s “Signature Wound,” to see what damage Obama has done to thousands of our young people with his stupid wars."

The Yearling

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"My mother read me Albert Payson Terhune’s dog stories before I could read them myself. The taste must have taken, since I devoured “The Yearling” when I was 10."

The Trinity

Augustine · Buy on Amazon

"Augustine’s “The Trinity.” Explores all the ways we are, as persons, one-and-many, as the way to know a one-and-many God."

War and Peace

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"Less interest in novels, especially historical novels (“War and Peace” always excepted)."

David Balfour

Robert Louis Stevenson · Buy on Amazon

"Catriona and Davie in Stevenson’s “David Balfour,” a delicate story told indirectly in the interstices of the book’s slashing politics."

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