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Sherman Alexie's Reading List

The author of “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” would love to go on a date with Dorothy Parker and “get verbally eviscerated.”

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By the Book: Sherman Alexie (2013)

NYT By the Book column (2013-11-07).

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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright · Buy on Amazon
"Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.” It’s an examination of one cult religion but can also be read as a primer on the basic cultlike nature of all religions."
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite work of Native American literature is “Ceremony,” by Leslie Marmon Silko."
The Havana Room
Colin Harrison · Buy on Amazon
"One of my favorite writers, Colin Harrison, writes amazing crime novels that aren’t feted as they should be. The last one I read, “The Havana Room,” begins with a peanut-allergy-related death that will rip your heart and guts and lungs out through your belly button."
The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll · Buy on Amazon
"“The Basketball Diaries,” by Jim Carroll. My dad gave it to me for my 15th birthday. He thought it was only about basketball. But it’s a book about heroin addiction, Catholic guilt, teenage sex, soul sickness and basketball. This book, above all others, is the reason I write."
Fire Water World: Poems
Adrian C. Louis · Buy on Amazon
"“Fire Water World: Poems,” by Adrian C. Louis. It’s the best example of free-verse Reservation Noir ever. And remains one of my guideposts."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown · Buy on Amazon
"I imagine that he’s already read it, but I would require “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” by Dee Brown."
Cover of It
It
Stephen King · Buy on Amazon
"Bill Denbrough from Stephen King’s “It.” A brave man who was braver as a boy. And a stutterer like me."
Fooling Houdini
Alex Stone · Buy on Amazon
"“Fooling Houdini,” by Alex Stone. I’m a dork about magic."

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