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Michael Cunningham's Reading List

Granted, says the author of books including "The Hours" and "A Wild Swan," it's "about a sociopathic predatory pedophilic rapist." But it's also "a messed-up love story right out of 'Beauty and the Beast.'"

By the Book: Michael Cunningham (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-04-30).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Light Years

James Salter · Buy on Amazon

"James Salter's "Light Years," which I read every few years."

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders · Buy on Amazon

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann · Buy on Amazon

""The Magic Mountain" is, of course, fabulous and impossible and, well, enormous, in every sense of the world... I adored it on some days and hated it on others."

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · Buy on Amazon

"I love it when a novel includes, along with its larger themes, actual information about the actual world."

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · Buy on Amazon

"It's hard to imagine a better book for these extremely dark times."

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