I love recommending books, but maybe you haven’t always thought my selections were dope. For those with other tastes, I have put together a list of books big name authors have publicly endorsed. These aren’t just books their publishers encouraged them to review, but ones they have given a special shoutout to in an interview, article, or speech.
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." – John Waters
Maybe you rather read…
Colson Whitehead picks for you: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Michael Connelly recommends: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Alice Hoffman loved: Circe by Madeline Miller
Sarah J. Maas thinks this book is unputdownable: Dark Lover by JR Ward
Viet Thanh Nguygen wants you to read: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantaz Fanaon
George RR Martin liked one of my favorite books: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Judy Blume was intrigued by: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Ta-Nehisi Coates digs the classic: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Michael Cunningham believes you should read: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Stephen King, who loves recommending books as much as I do, selected: Atonement by Ian McEwan, Underworld by Don Delillo, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, and Listen For the Lie by Amy Tintera
These are their recommendations, not mine. I have only read a couple of them, but now I want to read them all to see if I get out of them what these famous authors did. How about you? Which will you read first?
"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte
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