Neil Patrick Harris's Reading List

The author of "Choose Your Own Autobiography" loved "Gone Girl": "I devoured the acknowledgments, the book cover flaps, the ISBN, you name it. If it had been like a DVD, I could have read the 'making of' the writing of the book. I was that into it."

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By the Book: Neil Patrick Harris (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-10-16).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · Buy on Amazon

"Mystery, comedy, thriller, romance (-ish), switching brilliantly between two voices, two brains: just brilliant. I was so into it that I read literally every word."

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin · Buy on Amazon

"I have, for years, been a bit obsessed with "The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. It's a young adult murder mystery, about a group of residents in an apartment building, the death of a millionaire in a mansion nearby and their trying to solve clues."

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole · Buy on Amazon

"A blisteringly funny masterpiece with larger-than-life characters who yearn for something more, all set in the backdrop of the French Quarter in New Orleans."

Bossypants

Tina Fey · Buy on Amazon

""Bossypants." That Tina Fey just may be on to something in the funny department."

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 1988 · Buy on Amazon

"It's a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons. I've never, ever encountered a book that would so consistently have me read a passage and be so moved and changed that I would just set the book down and think about what I just learned."

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