One hundred of today’s most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their hearts—that made them who they are today.
Leading authors, politicians, CEOs, actors, and other notables share the books that changed their life, why they love them, and their passion with readers everywhere. Regan Arts has teamed up with the literary charity 826National, which will receive a portion of the book’s proceeds to provide students ages 6–18 with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills.
Contributors include Al Roker, Carl Hiaasen, Dave Eggers, Emma Straub, Eric Idle, Fay Weldon, Fran Lebowitz, Gillian Flynn, Gregory Maguire, Jeff Kinney, Jim Shepard, Laura Lippmann, Lev Grossman, Liev Schreiber, Margaret Atwood, Mayim Bialik, Nelson DeMille, Rosanne Cash, Susan Orlean, Tim Gunn, and Tommy Hilfiger, among others.
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The Books That Changed My Life
Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People
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The Books That Changed My Life
Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Introduction by Bethanne Patrick
- Diana Abu-Jaber on "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Heather B. Armstrong on "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
- Margaret Atwood on "Grimmâs Fairy Tales"
- Gina Barreca on "Remember Me" by Fay Weldon
- Louis Bayard on "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
- Mayim Bialik on "Hopscotch" by Julio CortĂĄzar
- Robin Black on "The Diary of Alice James"
- Amy Bloom on "The Deptford Trilogy" by Robertson Davies
- Deborah Blum on "The RubĂĄiyĂĄt of Omar Khayyam"
- Gesine Bullock-Prado on "Der Struwwelpeter" by Heinrich Hoffmann
- Keith Carradine on "The Book of Daniel" by E. L. Doctorow
- Maud Casey on "Man in the Holocene" by Max Frisch
- Rosanne Cash on "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Otis Chandler on "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- Ron Charles on "Straight Man" by Richard Russo
- Alexander Chee on "The Quest for Christa T." by Christa Wolf
- Alan Cheuse on "Ulysses" by James Joyce
- Caldecot Chubb on "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake
- Sofia Coppola on "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Cat Cora on "The Art of Eating" by M. F. K. Fisher
- Douglas Coupland on "The Andy Warhol Diaries"
- Peter Coyote on "The Odyssey" by Homer
- Lt. General Flora Darpino, US Army Judge Advocate General, on "The Best American Short Stories 2009"
- Kenneth C. Davis on "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
- Tom Davis on "The Emerging Republican Majority" by Kevin Phillips
- Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
- Liza Donnelly on "A Room of Oneâs Own" by Virginia Woolf
- Dave Eggers on "Herzog" by Saul Bellow
- Gillian Flynn on "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
- Amanda Foreman on "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
- Martin Frost on "The Making of the President 1960" by Theodore White
- Tavi Gevinson on "Mr. Wilsonâs Cabinet of Wonders" by Lawrence Weschler
- Lev Grossman on "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
- Tim Gunn on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee
- Carla Hall on "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
- Tony P. Hall on the Bible
- Jacob Hemphill on "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Juan Felipe Herrera on the poetry of Federico GarcĂa Lorca
- Dan Hesse on "The Republic" by Plato
- Carl Hiaasen on "Car" by Harry Crews
- Tommy Hilfiger on "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
- Eric Idle on Life-Changing Books
- Mira Jacob on "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
- Beverly Johnson on "John Adams" by David McCullough
- Piper Kerman on "Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
- Porochista Khakpour on "Good Morning, Midnight" by Jean Rhys
- Arleigh Kincheloe on "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- Lily King on "Itâs Not the End of the World" by Judy Blume
- Jack Kingston on "How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling" by Frank Bettger
- Jeff Kinney on "Inside the Box" by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg
- Julie Klam on "Marjorie Morningstar" by Herman Wouk
- Nicholas Kristof on "Four Essays on Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin
- Lisa Lampanelli on "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Fran Lebowitz on How Reading Is Her Life
- Yiyun Li on "Dream Tales and Prose Poems" by Ivan Turgenev
- Laura Lippman on "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
- Sarah MacLean on "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gregory Maguire on "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
- Judith Martin on "The Image" by Daniel Boorstin
- Alexander McCall Smith on "Collected Shorter Poems" by W. H. Auden
- Elizabeth McCracken on "Borrowed Time" by Paul Monette
- Gail McGovern on "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss
- David Mitchell on "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
- Brad Meltzer on "Justice League of America" #150
- Kate Mulgrew on "The Country Girls" by Edna OâBrien
- Celeste Ng on "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Susan Orlean on "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
- Ruth Ozeki on "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon
- Carolyn Parkhurst on "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
- Richard Peabody on "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann OâBrien
- Nancy Pearl on "A Gay and Melancholy Sound" by Merle Miller
- Jodi Picoult on "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
- Gerald Richards on "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
- Melissa Rivers on "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf
- Al Roker on "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Richard Russo on "Puddânhead Wilson" by Mark Twain
- SaĂŻd Sayrafiezadeh on "Krappâs Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett
- John Scalzi on "The Peopleâs Almanac" by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace
- Elissa Schappell on "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
- Liev Schreiber on "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
- Jim Shepard on the collected works of J. D. Salinger
- Rebecca Skloot on "Literary Journalism" by Mark Kramer and Norman Sims
- Karin Slaughter on "Mystery and Manners" by Flannery OâConnor
- Andrew Solomon on "Rootabaga Stories" by Carl Sandburg
- Sree Srinivasan on "Tales from Shakespeare" by Charles and Mary Lamb
- R.L. Stine on "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi
- Emma Straub on "Lunch Poems" by Frank OâHara
- Peter Straub on "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe
- J. Courtney Sullivan on "Nora Ephron Collected"
- Plum Sykes on "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
- Glenn Taylor on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
- Terry Tempest Williams on "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner
- Vu Tran on "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis
- Luis Urrea on "Cup of Tea Poems" by Issa
- Jess Walter on "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
- Sarah Waters on "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
- Fay Weldon on Not Accumulating Books
- Kate White on "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine LâEngle
- Meg Wolitzer on "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
- Sunil Yapa on "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- Copyright
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