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Greg Iles's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the novel "Cemetery Road," finds electronic books easier on his eyes these days: "I still love the scent and feel of ink and paper, but — we do what we must."

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By the Book: Greg Iles (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-06-27).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Dead Low Tide
John D. MacDonald · Buy on Amazon
"This was MacDonald finding his voice, one of the most natural in American prose. On the page it seems effortless, but all writers know it's not."
Black Boy
Richard Wright · Buy on Amazon
"Wright was born a few miles from Natchez, Miss., my hometown, and he died the year I was born. His work has brought me many chills of recognition."
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Manjit Kumar · Buy on Amazon
"Cosmology is a lifelong interest of mine, and quantum mechanics lies at the core of any true understanding of it."
Cover of All the King's Men
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · Buy on Amazon
"I reread "All the King's Men" every few years, and I think it's more relevant in this surreal historical moment than it was in the late 1940s, when it was written and Huey Long was still fresh in the American mind."
A Woman in Berlin
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"It's a harrowing document of the Soviet occupation of Berlin in 1945... this account of female survival in the face of vengeful conquest by an unrestrained army is essential to an understanding of war."
The Aubrey/Maturin novels
Patrick O'Brian · Buy on Amazon
"I've read the collected Aubrey/Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian at least four times, and I still discover nuances I missed on every previous reading. As psychological character studies, they're tough to beat."
The Black Count
Tom Reiss · Buy on Amazon
"From Tom Reiss's biography "The Black Count," I learned that the novelist Alexandre Dumas was the grandson of a French nobleman and an enslaved black woman."
Genius in the Shadows
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
""Genius in the Shadows," which recounts the life of Leo Szilard, one of the true geniuses of the 20th century."

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