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Sally Mann's Reading List

The photographer and author of “Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs” says her favorite novelist is Nabokov. “But wait — here comes Herman Melville in the homestretch. I think it’s a dead heat.”

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By the Book: Sally Mann (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-06-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra · Buy on Amazon
"I read straight through one particularly bad night, then turned back to Page 1 at 4:25 a.m. and started over again."
Cover of Just Kids
Just Kids
Patti Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Patti Smith's evocation of the life I might have led if I'd had her guts and moved to New York."
The Family of Man
Edward Steichen · Buy on Amazon
"If you had to name one book that made you who you are today. The Family of Man was an eye-opener to a curious and lonely little girl like me."
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard · Buy on Amazon
"I went back to it this year and expected it wouldn't hold up and it did — in spades. It is brilliant."
Cover of Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner · Buy on Amazon
"Angle of Repose, ditto."
Cover of Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · Buy on Amazon
"Infinite Jest needs a whole summer to rediscover."
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard · Buy on Amazon
"Something like Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — books that will send him down on his knees in a loamy forest to observe the bijoux details of this sweet, complex life."
Cover of My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell · Buy on Amazon
"Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals. Loved that."

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