Billy Corgan's Favorite Books
As the frontman and primary songwriter of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan helped bring alternative rock into the mainstream and…
Paul Auster's Top 10 Books
When Paul Auster passed away in 2024, the literary world lost one of its most idiosyncratic voices — a novelist…
Harold Bloom's 'American Sublime' Reading List
Oft-called the most notorious literary critic in America, Harold Bloom was born in 1930 to a family of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox…
10 Books That Shaped Ocean Vuong
Born in Saigon in 1988, poet and novelist Ocean Vuong‘s work is weighted with suffering: his family spent more than…
Hugh Laurie's Reading List
Before taking on the star-making turn of pill-popping medical maverick Dr. Gregory House on the hit Fox drama House, Hugh…
Morgan Freeman's Favorite Books
Over a nearly six-decade career in show business, Morgan Freeman has grown into one of the best-respected figures in modern…
74 Books That Filled Jorge Luis Borges’ Personal Library
“Let others boast of the books they have been given to write; I boast of those that I was given…
Susan Orlean's 6 Favorite Books for Animal Lovers
Award-winning author and longtime New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean is best known for her 1998 book The Orchid Thief,…
Basquiat’s Reference Books & Literary Influences
In his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a graffiti poet, political painter, and pop icon whose cult status and cultural…
Penn Jillette's Favorite Books on God & Atheism
As the raconteuring half of magic duo Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette has dazzled and disoriented audiences since the mid-70s.…