Vincent van Gogh's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 23 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2019)

Favorite books recommended by Vincent van Gogh's Literary Life, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/vincent-van-gogh-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Letters

the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. · Buy on Amazon

L’amour

Jules Michelet · Buy on Amazon

Tartarin de Tarascon

Alphonse Daudet · Buy on Amazon

The Eve of St. Agnes

John Keats · Buy on Amazon

Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot · Buy on Amazon

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Buy on Amazon

What the Moon Saw

Hans Christian Andersen · Buy on Amazon

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas a Kempis, · Buy on Amazon

Chérie

Edmond de Goncourt · Buy on Amazon

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · Buy on Amazon

Le Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac · Buy on Amazon

Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant (also rec’d by Tom Wolfe ) · Buy on Amazon

Madame Chrysanthème

Pierre Loti · Buy on Amazon

Candide

Voltaire · Buy on Amazon

Macbeth

William Shakespeare · Buy on Amazon

King Lear

William Shakespeare (also rec’d by Steve Jobs ) · Buy on Amazon

Hard Times

Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon

Nana

Émile Zola (also rec’d by Tom Wolfe ) · Buy on Amazon

La Joie de Vivre

Emile Zola · Buy on Amazon

L’Oeuvre

Émile Zola · Buy on Amazon

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