New Yorker Claire Danes

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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