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Janet Malcolmn's Reading List

The journalist, whose new book is “Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays,” read indiscriminately in her youth: “Bookish children are not critics. They just like to read.”

By the Book: Janet Malcolmn (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-02-14).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville · Buy on Amazon

"Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and The Other America, by Michael Harrington."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · Buy on Amazon

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain."

The Other America

Michael Harrington · Buy on Amazon

"The Other America, by Michael Harrington."

Orientalism

Edward Said · Buy on Amazon

"I like books in the genre that could be described as the bee-in-your-bonnet genre, books in which the author has an obsessive thesis, and argues it so brilliantly that you come away completely convinced. Some examples are: Edward Said's Orientalism."

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon

"I plan to go back to Bleak House, which I put aside during the holidays. It was like a boulder that was standing in the way of shorter books. Now I am ready to return to the wild terrain of Dickens's great work."

My Ántonia

Willa Cather · Buy on Amazon

"I also very much like Ántonia Shimerda, the heroine of Willa Cather's My Ántonia."

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