Nathan Lane's Reading List

""The Catcher in the Rye" and "Nine Stories" had a profound impact on me. His humor and darkness and use of language to convey character just killed me."

""The Catcher in the Rye" and "Nine Stories" had a profound impact on me."

"I just belatedly read "Tenth of December," by George Saunders, and was totally blown away."

"Laugh-out-loud, "I had to stop reading while I kept laughing," "I think I just peed a little" funny. Brilliant and hilarious and surprisingly, shockingly at times, intimate. You'll want to have dinner with him and maybe want to slightly protect him from the world and himself. Buy it!"

"Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom." That ending really got me."

"Moss Hart's autobiography, "Act One," still the best theatrical memoir ever."

"Scrupulously researched and elegantly written. They should both be required reading for anyone in the theater."

"Mr. Lahr's book makes you feel the day-to-day life of Tennessee, onstage and off, like no other I've read."

"My favorite book as a kid was definitely "Stuart Little," by E. B. White. I like any book that begins with the matter-of-fact birth of a mouse to a woman in Manhattan."

"A sensational, funny and compelling look at the life and genius of Bob Fosse. Definitive."