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Lin Manuel Miranda's Reading List

The star and creator of the musical “Hamilton” says “Things Fall Apart” was his favorite book to teach at Hunter College High School: “The kids walk out of the classroom as different people.”

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By the Book: Lin Manuel Miranda (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-04-05).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Saga
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"The last great book I read was catching up on Saga, the graphic novel series. An incredible world in which to get lost."
Cover of Chuck Amuck
Chuck Jones · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite book growing up was Chuck Amuck by Chuck Jones...it's also one of the most beautiful books about the creative process I've ever read."
Cover of Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · Buy on Amazon
"Grabbing Chernow's Hamilton bio rather famously changed my life."
Cover of Act One
Moss Hart · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Everything Was Possible
Cover of Affairs of Honor
Joanne Freeman · Buy on Amazon
"Her book Affairs of Honor was very helpful in understanding dueling at the time."
Cover of Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"My wife's favorite book is Moby-Dick, which I finally read last year. I cried several times -- it's a force."
Cover of The Rap Year Book
Shea Serrano · Buy on Amazon
"The Rap Year Book by Shea Serrano is required reading for hip-hop fans and hip-hop newbies alike. It's also the funniest thing I've read in years."
Cover of Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · Buy on Amazon
"Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Mr. Achebe evokes his world so brilliantly that the last sentence is one of the all-time great gut punches in the history of literature."
Cover of Nilda
Nicholasa Mohr · Buy on Amazon
"We were assigned Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr when I was in sixth grade, and it rocked my world -- maybe the first book I'd read about Puerto Ricans growing up in New York, like me."
Cover of Common Sense
Thomas Paine · 1776 · Buy on Amazon
"Common Sense by Thomas Paine -- that's the spark to the tinder of our founding."

Favorite books (2020)

Favorite books recommended by Lin Manuel Miranda, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/lin-manuel-miranda-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Gabriel García Márquez (also rec’d by Irvine Welsh , Joan Didion , Lin-Manuel Miranda & Richard Branson ) · Buy on Amazon
Finding by David Sedaris · Buy on Amazon
Ed Catmull (also rec’d by Janelle Monáe ) · Buy on Amazon
Madeleine L’Engle (also rec’d by Kim Gordon ) · Buy on Amazon
Madeleine L’Engle · Buy on Amazon
David Foster Wallace (also rec’d by AOC ) · Buy on Amazon
L. Jon Wertheim · Buy on Amazon
Simone de Beauvoir (also rec’d by Nipsey Hussle ) · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Fosse
Sam Wasson · Buy on Amazon
John Hodgman · Buy on Amazon
Robert Galbraith · Buy on Amazon
Naomi Alderman · Buy on Amazon
Andrew Lloyd Webber · Buy on Amazon
Carvens Lissaint · Buy on Amazon
Phoebe Waller-Bridge · Buy on Amazon
Justin & Sydnee McElroy · Buy on Amazon

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