Joan Didion’s Favorite Books in a Handwritten Reading List

• A Farewell to Arms (public library) by Ernest Hemingway
• Victory (public library) by Joseph Conrad
• Guerrillas (public library) by V.S. Naipaul
• Down and Out in Paris and London (public library) by George Orwell
• Wonderland (public library) by Joyce Carol Oates
• Wuthering Heights (public library) by Emily Bronte
• The Good Soldier (public library) by Ford Madox Ford
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (public library) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Crime and Punishment (public library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Appointment in Samarra (public library) by John O’Hara
• The Executioner’s Song (public library) by Norman Mailer
• The Novels of Henry James (public library): Washington Square, Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw
• Speedboat (public library) by Renata Adler
• Go Tell It on the Mountain (public library) by James Baldwin
• Notes of a Native Son (public library) by James Baldwin
• The Berlin Stories (public library) by Christopher Isherwood
• Collected Poems (public library) by Robert Lowell
• Collected Poems (public library) by W.H. Auden
• The Collected Poems (public library) by Wallace Stevens

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