A list of celebrities and their favorite books from the 1995 Who Reads What list:
Red Auerbach, basketball coach: “Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tom Swift” books by Victor Appleton, and books by Ken Follett and Len Deighton.
Alec Baldwin, actor: “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.
Milton Berle, comedian: the life story of George S. Kauffman.
Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer: “Something of Value” by Robert Ruark.
LaVar Burton, actor: “The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck and “A Course in Miracles” by Tara Singh.
Butros Butros-Ghali, secretary-general of the United Nations: “The Grammar of Politics” by Harold Laski.
Carolyn Chute, author: “Dead Man Walking” by Helen Prejean, “Jesus Before Christianity” by Albert Nolan, “The Unsettling of America” by Wendall Berry, “Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” by E.F. Schumacher, “1984” by George Orwell and “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck.
Tyne Daly, actress: “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle.
Bob Dole, Senate majority leader: “Eisenhower the President” by Stephen Ambrose.
Hugh Downs, TV journalist: “Northwest Passage” by Kenneth Roberts.
Olympia Dukakis, actress: plays by Anton Chekov.
William Friedkin, director: “Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust.
Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft: “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest Gaines.
Barry Goldwater, former senator: “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon.
Charlton Heston, actor: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, the complete works of Shakespeare.
Helen Hunt, actress: “The Crossing” by Cormac McCarthy.
Molly Ivins, journalist, writer: “Catcher in the Rye,” works of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen.
John Jakes, author: “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas, “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury, “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, books by James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard.
Angus King, governor of Maine: “Plain Speaking” by Merle Miller.
Norman Lear, producer: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Christopher Lee, actor: “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Yo-Yo Ma, concert cellist: “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie.
Karl Malden, actor: “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London.
Don McLean, singer: “A First Class Temperament” by Geoffery C. Ward.
Ed McMahon, TV personality: “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran, “Treasure Island” by R.L. Stevenson, “Without Remorse” by Tom Clancy, and “Master of the Game” by Connie Bruck.
Burgess Meredith, actor: “So Far, So Good” by Burgess Meredith.
Patti Page, singer: “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand, “Centennial,” “Hawaii” and “Chesapeake” by James Michener.
Winona Ryder, actress: “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger.
Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, activist: “Indian Givers” by Jack Weatherford, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown, “The Sacred Hoop” by Paula Gunn Allen, “Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton and “Ceremony” by Leslie Silko.
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