Hozier's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 11 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Hozier's Poetic & Literary Influences, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/hozier-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger (also rec’d by Hozier , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Kravitz , Liz Phair, Philip Roth & Richey Edwards ) · Buy on Amazon

Dubliners

James Joyce (also rec’d by Jim Morrison , Leonard Cohen & Ernest Hemingway ) · Buy on Amazon

"Hozier reading ‘Araby’ from Dubliners."

The Complete Works

Morrissey ) · Buy on Amazon

"[I’m a] big Oscar Wilde fan, even his short stories – his short stories are gorgeous…so lyrical."

Collected Poems

W.B. Yeats (also rec’d by Leonard Cohen ) · Buy on Amazon

"I have a bit of a love affair with fairytales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats who captured a lot of that very beautifully."

I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone

Nina Simone · Buy on Amazon

"Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits…Certainly I think Nina Simone is close to my heart."

Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

Barney Hoskyns · Buy on Amazon

"Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences, vivid and gifted storytellers."

The Third Policeman

Flann O’Brien · Buy on Amazon

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · Buy on Amazon

Metamorphoses

Ovid · Buy on Amazon

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