Sofia Coppola's 6 Best-Loved Books's Reading List

"Really hilarious and mean – a marriage in crisis, lots of unhinged characters, everyone’s out to lunch. A couple mired in their suburban life burns their house down to try to make it all go away, to start again—only to end up stuck repairing the building instead."

"Touching and romantic and funny; full of the sentimental details of being a teenager."

"My brother’s the one who got me into Brautigan’s Gothic western. This story of cowboy hitmen assigned to kill a monster is crazy, weird, and funny."

"This novel, the first of Mishima’s four-part Sea of Fertility series, takes place in turn-of-the-century Japan, and explores the clash between the old Japanese aristocracy and a new, rising class of elites. The son and daughter of two prominent families won’t admit they love each other until it’s too late, and she’s engaged to the emperor. It’s super-romantic, especially when the doomed lovers kiss in the snow."

"This is a collection of Ruscha’s word paintings from L.A. They crack me up: ‘We’re this, we’re that, aren’t we?’ and ‘Little Malibu love nest’ and ‘Did anyone say dreamboat?'"