Jamie Lee Curtis shares her favorite books to add to your reading list
Jamie Lee Curtis shares her favourite books to add to your reading list
In an interview taken by Jenna Bush Hager on “Today.com“
 Jamie Lee Curtis shares her favourite books to add to your reading list |
“I love a good story, I love to be moved, I love beautiful description, I like to think,” she told Jenna.”
Check out Jamie Lee Curtis’ favorite books below. With Book Publisher Descriptions.
1. “Go, Dog Go,” by P.D. Eastman
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| “Go, Dog Go,” by P.D. Eastman |
Publishers DescriptionReading goes to the dogs in this timeless Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. From big dogs and little dogs to red, green, and blue dogs, dogs going up and dogs going fast . . . who knew dogs were so busy? And laughter will ensue at the repeated question “Do you like my hat?” Like P. D. Eastman’s classic Are You My Mother? Go, Dog. Go! has been a go-to favorite for over fifty years, leaving audiences of all breeds wagging their tails with delight.
Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.
“The canine cartoons make an elementary text funny and coherent and still one of the best around.”–School Library Journal.
From the Back Cover “The canine cartoons make an elementary text funny and coherent and still one of the best around.”–School Library Journal.
2. “Annie Bananie,” by Leah Komaiko
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| “Annie Bananie,” by Leah Komaiko |
Sad because her best friend, Annie Bananie, is moving away, a little girl remembers all the fun they had together and wonders if they will still be best friends forever, in a charming picture book that celebrates the joy of friendship. Reissue.
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“Sheer pleasure.” — –Kirkus Reviews
3. “The Owl and the Pussycat,” by Edward Lear
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| “The Owl and the Pussycat,” by Edward Lear |
Owl sets out to woo Pussycat in a boat laden with fruit from their Caribbean island and with a guitar at his side, ready for serenading. As they sail off across the sea, another story unfolds in the water beneath the boat. One by one, exotic sea creatures swim into the picture and a small yellow fish seems to be looking for someone. Jan Brett brings the magic of the Caribbean to her exquisitely detailed illustrations of Edward Lear’s charming poem.
4. “Stoner,” by John Williams
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| “Stoner,” by John Williams |
Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the year’s pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
5. “Angle of Repose,” by Wallace Stegnerd
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| “Angle of Repose,” by Wallace Stegnerd |
Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of personal, historical, and geographic discovery
Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents’ remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America’s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he’s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
“Cause for celebration . . . A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction.” —The Atlantic Monthly
“Brilliant . . . Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enchantment of life.” —Los Angeles Times
This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Jackson J. Benson.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
6. “East of Eden,” By John Steinbeck
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| “East of Eden,” By John Steinbeck |
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.
7. “King Rat,” by James Clavell
“King Rat,” by James Clavell Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, “King Rat” is a heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.
