Apparently you’re not alone. I ran across a list of celeb’s favorite books and thought you might like to check out a few. (See what I did there? Librarian pun.) Happy reading!
Anna Kendrick
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Bill Murray
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post
A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post
The Plague by Albert Camus
Emma Watson
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Olivia Munn
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Michelle Obama
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Kit Harington
1984 by George Orwell
Dolly Parton
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
(And check out Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gives free books to kids!)
Robin Williams
Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov (or individually at 1, 2, 3)
Daniel Radcliffe
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Rachel McAdams
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Zooey Deschanel
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Donald Glover
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Alec Baldwin
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Hillary Clinton
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Runaway by Alice Munro
Jessica Biel
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chelsea Handler
Mawson’s Will by Lennard Bickel
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Keira Knightley
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
J. K. Rowling
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Halle Berry
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper
Jamie Chung
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Jennifer Lawrence
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Seymour by J. D. Salinger
Lady Gaga
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
John Hamm
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Cher
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Kesha
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Anne Hathaway
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Zoe Saldana
Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
George R. R. Martin
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Matt Damon
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Nas
Convictions by Richard Pryor
Natalie Portman
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Bill Gates
Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Joan Didion
Victory by Joseph Conrad