Marilynne Robinson's Reading List

The author of “Gilead” and “When I Was a Child I Read Books” says that after “Housekeeping,” her greatest fear was writing “a fraudulent book simply to escape the embarrassments of having written only one novel.”

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By the Book: Marilynne Robinson (2013)

NYT By the Book column (2013-03-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser · Buy on Amazon

"I remember reading books that overpowered me, when I was still young enough to be an ideal reader. Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," Maugham's "Of Human Bondage," Garland's "Main-Travelled Roads.""

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham · Buy on Amazon

"Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," Maugham's "Of Human Bondage," Garland's "Main-Travelled Roads." These are books I have never reread because I am afraid I would dispel the fascination they had for me."

Main-Travelled Roads

Hamlin Garland · Buy on Amazon

"Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," Maugham's "Of Human Bondage," Garland's "Main-Travelled Roads.""

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · Buy on Amazon

"Poe and Dickens were important to me, and before them "The Yearling" and "The Secret Garden.""

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · Buy on Amazon

"Poe and Dickens were important to me, and before them "The Yearling" and "The Secret Garden.""

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