Tilda Swinton's Reading List

Loaded with film and fashion photos, the museum catalog also includes commentary by many of her steady collaborators. In an email interview, she praised P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark. SCOTT HELLER

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By the Book: Tilda Swinton (2026)

NYT By the Book column (2026-01-08).

Source: www.nytimes.com

What Do People Do All Day?

Richard Scarry · Buy on Amazon

"I've yet to find a city I prefer — outright — to Busytown."

The Silver Book

Olivia Laing · Buy on Amazon

"A portrait of a certain kind of renegade filmmaking life that some of us recognize as timelessly familiar."

Orlando

Virginia Woolf · Buy on Amazon

"It's a magic mirror of a book, which I first tucked under my pillow when I was 15 and which, somehow, reliably keeps reflecting back each phase of life at me, leaf by leaf."

Bruges-la-Morte

Georges Rodenbach · Buy on Amazon

"David Bowie introduced me to Georges Rodenbach's "Bruges-la-Morte," all goose-bumps and intense melancholy, for which I am very grateful once a year when I reread it."

Une Vie Exemplaire

Floc'h · Buy on Amazon

"This is a book that we might do well to issue with each birth certificate: a primer to living a fully responsive and happy life."

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