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En iyi kitap seçkilerine dair derleme kitaplar görünce, biraz daha arama yaptım ve birkaç başlık altında bunları grupladım. İlk ayak, yönetmen, oyuncu ve senaristler. Hem simalar hem kitaplar tanıdık olsun istediğim için bir süzgeçten geçirdim, fazlasını ve açıklamaları her isme linklediğim adreslerden bulmanız mümkün.

David Mamet

  • Outlaws by George V. Higgins
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Wolfville by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah
  • Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
  • Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Emma Thompson

  • The Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter
  • The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
  • Season of Blood by Fergal Keane
  • Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
  • The Vintner‘s Luck by Elizabeth Knox

James Ivory

  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
  • Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
  • Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • Home by Marilynne Robinson
  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Diaghilev by Sjeng Scheijen

François Ozon

  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac
  • After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
  • The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  • Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
  • Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
  • Time Regained by Marcel Proust
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
  • Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima

Emily Mortimer

  • Limonov by Emmanuel Carrere
  • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Edie by Jean Stein
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
  • The Amazing Bone by William Steig
  • Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
  • Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Shonda Rhimes

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Kid by Dan Savage

James Franco

  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Long Home by William Gay
  • Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
  • Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  • In the Western Night: Collected Poems by Frank Bidart
  • Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland

Isabelle Huppert

  • The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
  • The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
  • Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Snopes: The Hamlet, the Town, the Mansion by William Faulkner
  • Autobiography by John Cowper Powys
  • The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
  • Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
  • Nature: Simple, Healthy, and Good by Alain Ducasse
  • The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Laura Linney

  • The Iliad of Homer
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • The Artist as Citizen by Joseph W. Polisi
  • Red by John Logan
  • You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Hug Machine by Scott Campbell
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
  • The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov

Tilda Swinton

  • Constantine (comic)
  • Doctor Strange (comic)
  • Snowpiercer (comic)
  • Bento’s Sketchbook by John Berger
  • Gavin Maxwell: A Life by Douglas Botting
  • Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
  • Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Une Vie Exemplaire by Floc’h
  • The Beach by Alex Garland
  • The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  • The Operators by Michael Hastings
  • Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
  • Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson
  • Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn
  • My Old Man by Tedd Kessler
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  • The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig

Cate Blanchett

  • The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
  • The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Voss by Patrick White
  • Oleanna by David Mamet
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

Philip Seymour Hoffman

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus (also rec’d by David Bowie)
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (also rec’d by David Bowie)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (also rec’d by Gloria Steinem)
  • The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
  • Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
  • The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  • The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
  • Independence Day by Richard Ford (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen)
  • The Sportswriter by Richard Ford (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen)
  • You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  • A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Remembrances of Things Past by Marcel Proust
  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth
  • Pastoralia by George Saunders
  • A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • Easter Parade by Richard Yates
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Rose McGowan

  • The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Weight Of Ink by Rachel Kadish
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
  • The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Carrie Fisher

Middlemarch by George Eliot (also rec’d by Zadie Smith)
Naked by David Sedaris
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (also rec’d by St. Vincent)
My Old Sweetheart by Susanna Moore
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Johnny Depp

  • The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
  • In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
  • The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and The Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
  • The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
  • Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
  • On the Road and Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
  • The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • A Season in Hell & Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud and The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
  • The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Daniel Radcliffe

  • The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Germinal by Emile Zola
  • Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Selected Poems by Tony Harrison

John Krasinski

  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb
  • How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Viggo Mortensen

  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Republic by Plato
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  • The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  • Comedies, Histories & Tragedies by William Shakespeare
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante
  • The Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández
  • Faust by Goethe
  • Danmarks Krønike by Saxo Grammaticus
  • A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

Julia Roberts

  • The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
  • An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy
  • Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Michael J. Fox

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

Jamie Lee Curtis

  • King Rat and Shogun by James Clavell
  • Stoner by John Williams
  • Dalva by Jim Harrison
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Gene Wilder

  • Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh edited by Irving Stone
  • Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Notebooks of Captain Georges by Jean Renoir
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Timebends by Arthur Miller

Bob Odenkirk

  • The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook edited by William Cook
  • Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Morgan Freeman

  • The Bible
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

John Cusack

  • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Chronicles by Bob Dylan
  • The Great Thoughts by George Seldes
  • The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
  • Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins

Scarlett Johansson

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  • Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk

Colin Firth

  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  • The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
  • Preston Falls by David Gates
  • Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
  • Light in August by William Faulkner
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Ethan Hawke

  • Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
  • The Collected Essex County by Jeff Lemire
  • The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
  • Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars by David Roberts
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Maggie Gyllenhaal

  • Mating by Norman Rush
  • Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
  • Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  • Another Country by James Baldwin

Margot Robbie

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
  • The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
  • Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth

Rose Byrne

  • Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
  • The Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin
  • Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
  • The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Hugh Laurie

  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré
  • Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

John Cleese

  • The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
  • Popper by Bryan Magee
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  • Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Cillian Murphy

  • The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
  • The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
  • Eclipse by John Banville
  • The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
  • Rabbit Series by John Updike
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
  • Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Grass Arena by John Healy
  • Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara

Kathy Bates

  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Impunity Jane by Rumer Godden
  • The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
  • How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

Richard E. Grant

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies
  • Money by Martin Amis
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
  • The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Brian Cox

  • In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching by P.D. Ouspensky
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • David Lean: A Biography by Kevin Brownlow

Jeremy Strong

  • My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Man Who Owns The News by Michael Wolff
  • Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
  • Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Alma Mahler-Werfel Diaries, 1898-1902 by Alma Mahler-Werfel
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Jennifer Connelly

  • The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
  • Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger

Betty White

  • The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  • On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  • Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan

Claire Danes

  • Deception by Philip Roth
  • Light Years by James Salter
  • Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
  • Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Hugh Dancy

  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
  • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology by P.G.Wodehouse
  • The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

Bruce Lee

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant
The Viking Book of Aphorisms
The Works of Shakespeare

Batı Felsefesi

Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung
On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
The Works of Bertrand Russell
The Works of Plato
Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Doğu Felsefesi

The Works of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Works of Alan Watts
The Analects of Confucius
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Bushido: The Soul of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys
The Chinese Classics by James Legge
Living Zen by Robert Linssen

Dövüş Sanatları/Eskrim/Boks

On Fencing by Aldo Nadi
Aikido: The Art of Self-Defense by Koichi Tohei
Advanced Karate by Mas Oyama
Gymnastics for the Beginner by Barry Johnson
Championship Fighting by Jack Dempsey
Book of Boxing and Bodybuilding by Rocky Marciano
How to Box by Joe Louis
U.S. Military Boxing Manual
Efficiency of Human Movement by Marion Ruth Broer
Physiology of Exercise by Laurence Morehouse
Wing Chun by James Lee
Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing by Felix Mann
Esquire’s The Art of Keeping Fit
Combat Training of the Individual Soldier by the US Army
Modern Bodybuilding by Oscar Heidenstam

John Lithgow

  • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
  • The Last Lion by William Manchester
  • Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  • A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  • Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
  • Act One by Moss Hart
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

John Carpenter

  • Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited by P.C. Wagner and H. Wise
  • The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  • Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss

Kerry Washington

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  • Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Jason Segel

  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
  • Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
  • Dear Girls Above Me by Charlie McDowell
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Mike Leigh

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
  • 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
  • Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
  • To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939–1945 by Ronald Searle
  • Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
  • The Bab Ballads by W.S. Gilbert

Darren Aronofsky

  • Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
  • The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
  • The Ragman’s Son by Kirk Douglas
  • Hitchcock by François Truffaut

Bong Joon-Ho

  • Hitchcock at Work by Bill Krohn
  • Hitchcock by François Truffaut
  • The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
  • Black Hole by Charles Burns

Jim Jarmusch

  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
  • Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
  • The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
  • Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
  • Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
  • The Woman Chaser by Charles Williford
  • Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
  • Serenade by James M. Cain
  • The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
  • The Factory of Facts and Low Life by Luc Sante
  • The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
  • Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Bradley Cooper

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
  • Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
  • So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
  • I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie
  • The Blue Lenses by Daphne du Maurier
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Killing Eve by Luke Jennings
  • The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
  • The First Bad Man by Miranda July
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • Little Birds by Anaïs Nin
  • Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
  • Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Michael Moore

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  • Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
  • The Soft Revolution by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
  • How Children Learn by John Holt
  • Fit from Within by Victoria Moran

Bill Hader

  • Rock Springs by Richard Ford
  • Vanity Will Get You Somewhere by Joseph Cotten
  • Raven by Tim Reiterman
  • Descent of Man by T. C. Boyle
  • The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
  • What I’d Say to the Martians by Jack Handey
  • What in God’s Name by Simon Rich
  • Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Mindsploitation by Vernon Chatman
  • My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top by Jon Glaser
  • Norwood, Masters of Atlantis & The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
  • Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
  • Homicide by David Simon
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • In Broad Daylight by Harry N. MacLean
  • Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
  • A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris
  • Popular Crime by Bill James
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Light in August by William Faulkner
  • Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  • City of Nets by Otto Friedrich
  • The Parade’s Gone By… by Kenneth Brownlow
  • Who the Devil Made It & Who the Hell’s in It by Peter Bogdanovich
  • How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime by Roger Corman
  • The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb
  • Picture by John Huston
  • Conversations With Clint by Kevin Avery
  • Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers by Simon Louvish
  • Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling
  • The Name Above The Title by Frank Capra
  • Elia Kazan & Conversations with Scorsese by Richard Schickel
  • My Life and My Films by Jean Renoir
  • The Emperor and the Wolf by Stuart Galbraith IV
  • Images by Ingmar Bergman
  • Conversations With Wilder by Cameron Crowe
  • Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
  • Tenth of December by George Saunders
  • The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Bunnicula by James Howe & Deborah Howe
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

John Krasinski

  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb
  • How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Natalie Portman

  • The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
  • Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • What Is the What by Dave Eggers
  • A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

Greta Gerwig

  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
  • The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
  • The White Album by Joan Didion
  • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  • Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Nora Ephron

  • Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller
  • A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
  • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  • The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Emma & Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Audrey Hepburn

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
  • Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Greta Garbo

  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Tolstoy
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Turgenev
  • Marianne Moore
  • Hemingway
  • Emily Brontë
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Goethe
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