@edieshortlist
the BBC's Big Read, top 21
21 items
- 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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Art Garfunkel's favorite books, from his own reading log
He's logged every book he's read since 1968 on his own site. These are the ones he starred as favorites.
01
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's the name that comes up most across his interviews about this list. no surprise it's near the top.
02
Confession - Leo Tolstoy
03
Ulysses - James Joyce
sits on the same list as genre paperbacks, which says something about how he actually reads.
04
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
05
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
start here if the full Rabbit tetralogy feels like a lot.
06
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
07
The Lives of the Great Composers - Harold C. Schonberg
08
The Triumph of Politics - David A. Stockman
a Reagan-era budget memoir. not the pick you'd expect from a Simon & Garfunkel voice.
09
The Shining - Stephen King
the one horror pick on a list otherwise heavy on classics.
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