Kamasi Washington, Carrie Brownstein, Neko Case, More Share Favorite Books of the Year
By Noah Yoo.
Kamasi Washington, Carrie Brownstein, Neko Case, Moby, and Paul Simon have shared their favorite books of the year for a new roundup published in the New York Times. Their reading selections feature classics (Washington read Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn novels while nursing an ankle injury), memoirs (Herbie Hancock and novelist John Cheever’s autobiographical writings are included), and books on race and politics in America. Check out the artists’ picks below, and find the full roundup here.
Kamasi Washington
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Mysticism of Sound and Music
Herbie Hancock - Possibilities
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow*
Carrie Brownstein
Zadie Smith - *Swing Time
George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland
Jesmyn Ward (editor) - The Fire This Time
Brit Bennett - The Mothers*
Neko Case
Adrienne Mayor - The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
C. Vann Woodward - The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Paul Simon
Don DeLillo - Zero K
Billy Collins - The Rain in Portugal
Edward O. Wilson - Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Moby
John Cheever - The Journals of John Cheever
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