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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

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."
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."
Ron Chernow · Buy on Amazon
"Grabbing Chernow's Hamilton bio rather famously changed my life."
Cover of Act One
Moss Hart · Buy on Amazon
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."
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."
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 · Buy on Amazon
"Common Sense by Thomas Paine -- that's the spark to the tinder of our founding."

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