Norman Mailer's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 10 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2020)

Favorite books recommended by Norman Mailer, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/norman-mailer-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

The Top Ten

Tolstoy, Flaubert and Dostoyevsky, Mailer wrote: · Buy on Amazon

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy (also rec’d by Ernest Hemingway , Philip Roth & Susan Sontag ) · Buy on Amazon

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert (also rec’d by David Bowie , Ernest Hemingway , Kim Gordon & Philip Roth ) · Buy on Amazon

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (also rec’d by David Lynch , Joan Didion , Norman Mailer & Philip Roth ) · Buy on Amazon

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky (also rec’d by Ernest Hemingway ) · Buy on Amazon

The U.S.A. Trilogy

John Dos Passos · Buy on Amazon

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , John Irving , Norman Mailer , Patti Smith , Penn Jillette , Ray Bradbury , Steve Jobs & Tilda Swinton ) · Buy on Amazon

The Red and the Black

M. de Stendhal (also rec’d by JFK ) · Buy on Amazon

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges (also rec’d by Daniel Radcliffe ) · Buy on Amazon

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