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- Barry R. ZimanInterview
- The Best Books Set In New YorkReading list
The Great Gatsby is one of the most iconic books set in New York City. The story follows Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who falls in love with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. However, Daisy is already married to the wealthy Tom Buchanan, and their relationship is fraught with tension and jealousy. Set against the…
- Ten Times The Book Was Better Than The MovieArticle
The Great Gatsby is a novel that was published in 1925. The book tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a man who is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan. The book was later turned into a movie, which was released in 2013. The movie was a critical and commercial failure and received negative reviews. While the movie has its moments…
- Lindsay AmerInterview
This is also a really tough question! I kinda want to say the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling but also The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Harry Potter has just always been an incredible constant in my life as a story that has grown with me as I’ve grown into my identity and adulthood and has meant something…
- Anthony FranzeInterview
- Ashley Hickson-LovenceInterview
Quite late on I remember. Sixth form college probably, so aged 16/17. Reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan, Nineteen Eight-Four by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – books that I felt I had to read if I wanted to study English at university.
- Lindsay VarnumInterview
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, My Life in France by Julia Child and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Amy Andelson and Emily MeyerInterview
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. We loved the book so much that the first thing we ever wrote together was a contemporary adaptation of the classic novel set in high school. The movie was never made but the screenplay sold to Sony when we were 24 and launched our careers.
- Mark BowdenInterview
I think the choice of what to read is so subjective, and ought to be, that I would not make such a recommendation unprompted. But since I’ve been asked, as an American writer I’d suggest Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Rabbit Novels by John Updike. The…
- Brett BlumenthalInterview
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. What an era. Absolutely loved it as a kid, and then as an adult, I had a totally different experience and came away with totally different insights.
- Sage FrancisInterview
Well, if it’s mandated by law, I’d hope it would be a book about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, local bylaws, stuff like that. Heh. If there’s anything they force down in school before you enter adult life, maybe it should be a book like that. That’s never done though. Only The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald…
- Alison JacksonInterview
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford; Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev; Atonement by Ian McEwan; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett; Ways of Seeing by John Berger.
- Alec RossInterview
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I know that might seem ridiculous, but the lessons from that book about ambition, artifice, love and not-love would serve any young person leaving education well. Better that than a business book.
- Tim AtkinInterview
Probably A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust, which I read when I lived in Avignon on my year abroad as part of my French degree. But The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a close second.
- Rich CohenInterview
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.
- Annelise OsborneInterview
I read so many books as a kid. The ones from school I remember are The Bridge to Teribithia, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Wuthering Heights. For fun, I would read the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie novels and of course Judy Blume books. I also read the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.
- Dr Toni LindsayInterview
The Great Gatsby — I first read this for high school and have read it many many times since, and every time I find a new perspective, or a piece that I hadn’t thought about before.
Often recommended alongside
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
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The Bell Jar
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
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