Who recommends it
- Mo WelchInterview
Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Look at me, I like pretty pictures and I’m deep!
- Lawrence GrobelInterview
I think about The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and Franz Kafka’s stories.
- Daniel HamermeshInterview
Numerous of them. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, of course; and Magister Ludi and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (read it 3 times, in German).
- Wim HofInterview
I would encourage young people to read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse or Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach. Both are books that can inspire you to go and challenge yourself beyond your fears. Be uninhibited and you will find great worlds.
- Dan HararyInterview
I honestly can’t remember the first book I ever read, but I do remember the earliest books I read that were memorable to me: three books by Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmund. They were all so compelling I felt I was in the scenes with these characters. I believe I might have been 14…
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