Our American sojourn continues with a trip to Manhattan's Gramercy Park and a visit to the esteemed, million-selling author Amor Towles! Amor is the writer of the bestselling titles Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow which was a recommended read of both Bill Gates and Barack Obama as well as appearing on a multitude of best of the year lists. We talked to him about reading the canon, inhaling James Bond and the amount of time you're allowed before giving up on a book.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles - Rules of Civility
Edith Wharton - Collected Novels
Harold Bloom - American Canon
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Paul Scott - Raj Quartet
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Human Stain
Ross Macdonald - Collection
Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep
Franklin W Dixon - Hardy Boys
Ray Bradbury - Stories
Agatha Christie - Collection
John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carre - Honourable Schoolboy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Loved You
Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Naguib Mahfouz - Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz - The Quarter
Harry Matthews - The Conversions
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
James Baldwin - Go Tell It To The Mountain
Flannery O’Connor - Complete Stories
Sloan Wilson - Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
David Goodis - Black Friday
Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Ford Madox Ford - Good Soldier
Grace Metalious - Peyton Place
John Cheever - Wapshot Chronicle
Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
Adler & Van Doren - Great Treasury of Western Thought
Emily Post - Etiquette
Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews
Various - WPA Guide To New York City
Raymond Carver - Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov- Short Stories
Kingsley Amis - James Bond Dossier
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