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Jules Feiffer's Reading List

The cartoonist, whose new picture book is “Smart George,” read Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” on a trip to the Dominican Republic: “For five days, I barely moved from the beach chair.”

By the Book: Jules Feiffer (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-05-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth · Buy on Amazon

"I find the TV adaptation of Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” a lot more credible, complex and involving than I did the book."

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon

"Tolstoy’s epic opened up the world to me as nothing I’ve read or seen before, or since."

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon · 2000 · Buy on Amazon

"For five days, I barely moved from the beach chair by the front of our rental, totally consumed by Chabon’s brilliant re-creation of the trashy, often sleazy comic book world."

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 1951 · Buy on Amazon

"For my ’50s generation, Salinger was an addiction, and dominated much of our conversations, and even our ambitions."

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon

"If you read ‘Gatsby’ before 21, it was a good book, but reading it again 20 years later, you find a great Gatsby."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · Buy on Amazon

"Every bit as appropriate today as in my youth, Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”"

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling · Buy on Amazon

"Kipling’s “Just So Stories”"

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