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

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."

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."

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow · Buy on Amazon

"Grabbing Chernow's Hamilton bio rather famously changed my life."

Act One

Moss Hart · Buy on Amazon

Everything Was Possible

Ted Chapin · Buy on Amazon

Affairs of Honor

Joanne Freeman · Buy on Amazon

"Her book Affairs of Honor was very helpful in understanding dueling at the time."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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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