Amor Towles's Book Choices from "The Writer's Library"
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Book), 14 Books
These are Amor Towles's book choices from the interview with him in the book "The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives" by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site 2 days ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12148 | Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? | Harold Bloom | 2004 | American | English | |
| 5679 | The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury | 1951 | American | English | |
| 28 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | British | English | |
| 20 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | French | French | |
| 5 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 73 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 | American | English | |
| 633 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré | 1974 | British | English | |
| 7709 | The Honourable Schoolboy | John le Carré | 1977 | British | English | |
| 1115 | The Cairo Trilogy | Naguib Mahfouz | 1956 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 7 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American | English | |
| 8643 | The Raj Quartet | Paul Scott | 1976 | British | English | |
| 108 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | American | English | |
| 10 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russian | Russian | |
| 12 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russian | Russian |