07.15.2008 10:50 am
Celebrity authors’ life-changing books
Post-Dispatch Book Editor
The National Book Foundation has a terrific list of celebrity authors and the books they say changed their life.
Here are some of the titles:
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Mark Bowden, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Don DeLillo, Dracula by Bram Stoker
Andre Dubus III, The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
Clarence Major, A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
| The Book That Changed My Life Reading List for Young Adults and Teens |
- Jacques Barzun, Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- Kimberly Willis Holt, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- Lois Lowry, The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Stephen King, Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Joyce Carol Oates, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
To view a complete list, visit www.nationalbook.org/bookchanged.html.
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