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15 New Yorkers' Favorite Books

New York may be the city that never sleeps because there's so much to read! Here are 15 famous New Yorkers' favorite books.
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New Yorker Claire Danes

Claire Danes

"I have friends who read entire novels in the bath, and I'm not like that—I don't zip through books. But I invest in them completely." —Claire Danes, actress

Books that made a difference to Claire Danes:

Deception by Philip Roth

Light Years by James Salter

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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Published on May 27, 2010
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