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John Lennon's Library's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 29 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by John Lennon's Library, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/john-lennon-favorite-books/.

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David Bowie ) · Buy on Amazon
Louisa May Alcott (also rec’d by Elizabeth Warren , Glennon Doyle , Gloria Steinem , Hillary Clinton , John Lennon, Maya Angelou & Shonda Rhimes ) · Buy on Amazon
Lewis Carroll (also rec’d by Hayao Miyazaki , Patti Smith & Rose McGowan ) · Buy on Amazon
"On penning ‘I am the Walrus’: “I was writing obscurely, a la Dylan, in those days. It’s from ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter.’ ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the goo..."
Lewis Carroll · Buy on Amazon
Richmal Crompton · Buy on Amazon
Aldous Huxley (also rec’d by Janelle Monáe & Susan Sontag ) · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · Buy on Amazon
"The first thing they say — ‘Oh! He’s read James Joyce,’ you know. So I hadn’t. And so the first thing I do is buy Finnigan’s Wake and read a chapter. And it’s great, you know, and I dug it, and I felt as though he’s an old friend. But I couldn’t make it right through the book, and so I read a chapter of Finnigan’s Wake and that was the end of it."
Jack Kerouac (also rec’d by David Bowie ) · Buy on Amazon
Yoko Ono (READ: Yoko Ono’s Book Recommendations ) · Buy on Amazon
"Introduction by Lennon."
Edgar Allen Poe (also rec’d by Maya Angelou ) · Buy on Amazon
Tony Palmer & Ralph Steadman · Buy on Amazon
"Foreword by Lennon."
Field Marshal Lord Roberts · Buy on Amazon
Jonathan Swift · Buy on Amazon
Dylan Thomas · Buy on Amazon
Jay Thompson · Buy on Amazon
"Introduction by Lennon."
James Thurber · Buy on Amazon
"I think I was fifteen when I started ‘Thurberising’ the drawings."
Oscar Wilde · Buy on Amazon
"I look at early pictures of meself, and I was torn between being Marlon Brando and being the sensitive poet – the Oscar Wilde part of me with the velvet, feminine side."
Word of Mouth (1986) · Buy on Amazon

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