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Kazuo Ishiguro's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “The Buried Giant” was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes as a child. “I’d go to school and say things like: ‘Pray, be seated’ or ‘That is most singular.’ People at the time just put this down to my being Japanese.”

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By the Book: Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-03-08).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Iliad
Homer · Buy on Amazon
"These versions are uncluttered, less lyrical than the great Fagles translations, but the big emotions loom powerfully in understatement."
Cover of The Odyssey
Homer · Buy on Amazon
"These versions are uncluttered, less lyrical than the great Fagles translations, but the big emotions loom powerfully in understatement."
Malka Marom · Buy on Amazon
"Curiously, I find I admire Mitchell more and more as I get older... I'm hoping this book will be full of quiet revelations."
Cover of Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · Buy on Amazon
"I owe my career, and a lot else besides, to Jane Eyre and Villette."
Cover of Villette
Charlotte Brontë · Buy on Amazon
"I owe my career, and a lot else besides, to Jane Eyre and Villette."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"All really fine novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"All really fine novels."
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Blood Meridian (masterpiece)"
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"Lonesome Dove (probably ditto)"
Haruki Murakami · Buy on Amazon
"Something like Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun seems to embody the jazz spirit; reading it comes close to listening to a sad late-night jazz ballad."
Cover of Love in a Cold Climate
Nancy Mitford · 1949 · Buy on Amazon
"Funny indeed, but also surprisingly dark."
David Peace · Buy on Amazon
"The novel is barking mad, but quite brilliant, and is a monument to a kind of magnificent decency once at the core of British life."
Cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · Buy on Amazon
"The Hound of the Baskervilles was, and remains, my favorite Holmes story. It was scary and gave me sleepless nights."

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