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Katie Couric's Reading List

“Sometimes I read my iPad in the bathtub, which is probably not a great idea,” says the broadcast journalist Katie Couric, whose new memoir is “Going There.”

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By the Book: Katie Couric (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-12-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"The book is quirky and moving and Duchess has become a wise, comforting voice on Twitter that provides an excellent counterbalance to all the vitriol."
Cover of Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · Buy on Amazon
"I loved the lilting lyricism of the prose."
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite place to read is at the beach in the late afternoon. That's where I read Fleishman Is in Trouble (I love Taffy Brodesser-Akner)."
Cover of The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · Buy on Amazon
"She said it was the most important book she ever read. I read it and thought it was a masterpiece. It prompted several rich and memorable conversations between us."
Cover of If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi · 1947 · Buy on Amazon
"My mother-in-law, Paula, suggested I read Primo Levi's If This Is a Man. The memoir made the experience even more meaningful."
Cover of When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, The Light of the World, by Elizabeth Alexander, and Notes on Grief, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, helped me metabolize my own experience."
Eleanor
David Michaelis · Buy on Amazon
"I devoured Eleanor, by my friend David Michaelis. It's a stunning character study of someone I deeply admire."
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Peril
Bob Woodward · Buy on Amazon
"Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — a meticulously reported deconstruction of the insane final days of the Trump administration."
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers · Buy on Amazon
"I also loved The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1966 · Buy on Amazon
"Oh, and In Cold Blood. That gave me nightmares for weeks."

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