Patrick Modiano's Reading List

"Since I was 16, I've admired Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Cesare Pavese, Malcolm Lowry and a poet, W.B. Yeats. Also, "The Magic Mountain," by Thomas Mann."

"Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," written about the Spanish War at the very time the war was happening."

"About France, I don't know. But about Paris, I would recommend an American book: "A Moveable Feast," by Ernest Hemingway."

"For many years, my wife has given me a copy of the book "Manon Lescaut," by Abbé Prévost, for my birthday, each time in a different edition."

"I loved Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island""

"Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers.""