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Steve Inskeep's Reading List

“Years ago I read everything by Hemingway and Raymond Carver,” says the co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition” and author, most recently, of “Imperfect Union.” “It’s a different experience to read Elif Shafak and Lauren Groff.”

By the Book: Steve Inskeep (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-07-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Florida

Lauren Groff · 2018 · Buy on Amazon

"Writing that makes me see what the characters see. Like a story in Lauren Groff's "Florida," which puts you inside a house with a woman who rides out a hurricane alone."

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · Buy on Amazon

"Antihero: Judge Holden, the huge hairless gunman in Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian.""

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Buy on Amazon

"Hero: The father who never gives up protecting his son in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road.""

The Power Broker

Robert Caro · 1974 · Buy on Amazon

"I'm on the bed of a dorm room that is cold because I unknowingly left the window cracked open all winter, reading Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," a book that was much too thick to open when a professor assigned it but now that class is canceled by a student strike I have time."

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · Buy on Amazon

"A mystery anthology that included Raymond Chandler's "Killer in the Rain" caused me to read all his novels, starting with "The Big Sleep.""

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren · Buy on Amazon

"Robert Penn Warren, "All the King's Men." A Southern demagogue gets himself elected governor to battle the elites, but gradually surrenders his principles."

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · Buy on Amazon

"I'm in a house in Pakistan, having bought Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in an Islamabad shop called Mr. Old Books."

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