Hello and congrats on running an awesome blog! This Suburban Punk wants to know more about the reading habits of VW. For example, I've seen Ezra referencing P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Roald Dahl in interviews/on twitter. Is there a more comprehensive list out there? Thanks!
I’m sorry for the late reply lol but here, we made you a list:
Ezra
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Making Haste From Babylon by Nick Bunker
- Favorite poets: Donne and Emily Dickinson
- Rudyard Kipling (he said he is his favorite writer in a 2008 interview)
- Favorite poem: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
- He has books by Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and of course Evelyn Waugh on his bookshelf (Rolling Stone, 2010)
- The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
- Autobiographies: Autobiography of Malcolm X and Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography
Rostam
- Boys Like Us by Patrick Merla
- Zadie Smith
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Confidence Men by Ron Suskind
CT
- Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- Run River by Joan Didion
- Don DeLillo
Baio
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Le Freak by Nile Rodgers
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Demons, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov)
- Don DeLillo (Underworld, Americana, The Angel Esmeralda, Players, Ratner’s Star, Running Dog, Mao II, Libra, Falling Man, End Zone, White Noise)
- Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
- War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
- A Death in the Family by James Agee
- Junot Diaz (Drown, The Bried Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
- Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
- Bernard Summer by David Nolan
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
- Albert Camus (The Fall, The Plague)
- *Baio reads about 40 books a year
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