If celebrity endorsements draw you in, you may want to consider picking up one of these favorite books (from a feature on msn.com):
Ben Affleck – Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Judd Apatow (director of Knocked Up) and Anderson Cooper – A Death in the Family by James Agee
Samantha Bee (from The Daily Show) – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Harold Bloom (Yale literature professor) – Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
George H.W. Bush – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Don Cheadle – If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Bill Clinton – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Mark Cuban (businessman) – The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Nora Ephron (movie director) – The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Chris Matthews – A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Barack Obama – Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living
Michelle Obama – Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gwenyth Paltrow – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Robert Pattinson – Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems
Amy Poehler – I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
Natalie Portman – The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
Bill Simmons (sports writer) – Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
Kristen Stewart – Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Jay-Z – The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
Kristen Stewart reads books? I thought she just gazed into the distance with a smoldering look...
ReplyDeleteI love the Gwenyth endorsed Jane Eyre. So apropos.
and if anyone loves Catcher in the Rye, please read Broken.