Dori Quote by Dave Barry

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a…

— Joe Root

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice…

— Hillary Clinton

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen…

— Tana French

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one…

— Hozier

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it…

— Jay McInerney

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the…

— Isaac Marion

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott