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Tom Wolfe's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 16 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Tom Wolfe, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/tom-wolfe-favorite-books/.

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Guy de Maupassant, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy and Evelyn Waugh. It’s accompanied by a short essay extolling on his appreciation of James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy, a work, Wolfe writes, that contains “one of the few sublime reflections of the feeling of being in love in all of literature.” · Buy on Amazon
Honoré de Balzac · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell · Buy on Amazon
"The life of every individual, sayeth the sage, runs along the line created by the intersection of two planes: personality and social setting. I can’t think of any American novelist who ever drew that line more brilliantly than James T. Farrell in this trilogy. If this be “plodding realism,” let every American novelist start plodding Studs-style , lest the American novel fall down in a heap and die, as it now seems wont to do."
Cover of Bel Ami
Guy de Maupassant · Buy on Amazon
John O’Hara (also rec’d by Joan Didion ) · Buy on Amazon
John O’Hara · Buy on Amazon
John Steinbeck (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen & Nelson Mandela ) · Buy on Amazon
Evelyn Waugh (also rec’d by David Bowie ) · Buy on Amazon
Thornton Wilder · Buy on Amazon

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