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Isaac Mizrahi's Reading List

The fashion designer and author of the new memoir “I.M.” likes his literature “sort of plain”: “Style is suspicious to me in general. I think that’s true about my taste in everything. Food. Décor. Clothes.”

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By the Book: Isaac Mizrahi (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-02-21).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · Buy on Amazon
"The Portrait of a Lady and all the rest of Henry James, including a ravishing novel about him called The Master, by Colm Toibin."
The Master
Colm Toibin · Buy on Amazon
"A ravishing novel about him called The Master, by Colm Toibin."
Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust · Buy on Amazon
"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Vol. 2 of In Search of Lost Time), by Marcel Proust. I'm in the midst of reading the entire series and it's really daunting and inspiring, not to mention time-consuming."
White Houses
Amy Bloom · Buy on Amazon
"I just read a beautiful novel about Lorena Hickok and Mrs. Roosevelt called White Houses, by Amy Bloom."
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · Buy on Amazon
"Also A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara."
D.V.
Diana Vreeland · Buy on Amazon
"D.V., by Diana Vreeland."
Proust's Duchess
Caroline Weber · Buy on Amazon
"Her book Proust's Duchess, about three women who were models for the Duchesse de Guermantes, is a masterpiece."
Cover of Stoner
Stoner
John Williams · 1965 · Buy on Amazon
"For me literature is most effective when it's sort of plain. I think of how much I love the book Stoner, by John Williams."
Cover of Diaries
Diaries
Dawn Powell · Buy on Amazon
"One of the most perfect books ever written is Dawn Powell's Diaries."
The Gourmand's Way
Justin Spring · Buy on Amazon
"I just read a wonderful book called The Gourmand's Way, by Justin Spring."
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar · Buy on Amazon
"I love Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar. In that book the emperor Hadrian talks about being an insomniac, sitting up nights writing while everyone else is asleep."
The Master and Margarita
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"I love The Master and Margarita. In that book, which on the surface is about good and evil, there seem to be no bad or good characters, just images."
The Patrick Melrose novels
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"He recommended the beautiful Patrick Melrose novels, which I devoured a few years ago."

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