The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. I’ve read or reread almost the whole list after reading it last year.
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Lonesome dove because stephen king mentioned it in dance macabre.
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) because it’s the source of the title of To Say Nothing of the Dog.
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I started reading works by John Fante after Bukowski mentioned it in a book and some of his stuff is wonderful. Very unknown writer
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Not quite the same thing, but close enough that I think it’s worth a mention. One of my favorite childhood movies is The Road to El Dorado. There’s a song in that soundtrack with the lyric “Shangri-La, the promised land.”
One day I googled Shangri-La to see what it was, and discovered it was from a book from the 1930s called *Lost Horizon* by James Hilton.
Finally got around to reading it this year, and I definitely enjoyed it.
I read Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) because Ayn Rand was mentioned extensively in Matt Ruff’s Public Works trilogy. Quite the whiplash…
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A Room of One’s Own, mentioned in countless contemporary feminist novels
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I’m about to start “The Way of the Pilgrim” just because it was part of Franny and Zooey.
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I read Hartley’s “The Go-Between” (which is excellent) after reading this quote from it in another book (which I think was something by Claire Messud, although I don’t remember which one):
“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”
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The Mysteries of Udolpho, mentioned in Northanger Abbey
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The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. I’ve read or reread almost the whole list after reading it last year.
Lonesome dove because stephen king mentioned it in dance macabre.
The Red Badge of Courage
Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) because it’s the source of the title of To Say Nothing of the Dog.
I started reading works by John Fante after Bukowski mentioned it in a book and some of his stuff is wonderful. Very unknown writer
Not quite the same thing, but close enough that I think it’s worth a mention. One of my favorite childhood movies is The Road to El Dorado. There’s a song in that soundtrack with the lyric “Shangri-La, the promised land.”
One day I googled Shangri-La to see what it was, and discovered it was from a book from the 1930s called *Lost Horizon* by James Hilton.
Finally got around to reading it this year, and I definitely enjoyed it.
I read [Causing Death and Saving Lives](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513308.Causing_Death_and_Saving_Lives?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=sTpHZfYNa6&rank=1), by Jonathan Glover, because Ludo mentions it in [The Last Samurai](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190372.The_Last_Samurai?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=7jRItXgaib&rank=1).
I read Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) because Ayn Rand was mentioned extensively in Matt Ruff’s Public Works trilogy. Quite the whiplash…
A Room of One’s Own, mentioned in countless contemporary feminist novels
I’m about to start “The Way of the Pilgrim” just because it was part of Franny and Zooey.
I read Hartley’s “The Go-Between” (which is excellent) after reading this quote from it in another book (which I think was something by Claire Messud, although I don’t remember which one):
“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”
The Mysteries of Udolpho, mentioned in Northanger Abbey