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Ex-Maine librarian reveals ‘Who Reads What?’ list for ’03

Some celebrities’ favorite books from the former Maine librarian’s annual “Who Reads What?” list for 2003:

Jeffrey Archer, author and member, British House of Lords: “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens.

Lawrence Block, author: “Forever” by Pete Hamill, “The First Law” by John Lescroart, “Fat Ollie’s Book” by Ed McBain, complete works of John O’Hara.

Jan Burke, author: “Brat Farrar” by Josephine Tey, “Trouble Is My Business” by Raymond Chandler.

Lee Child, author: “Sophie’s Choice” by William Styron, “Derailed” by James Siegel.

Dom DeLuise, actor-comedian: “Charlie the Caterpillar” by Dom DeLuise.

Andy Garcia, actor: “Three Trapped Tigers” by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt: “Truman” by David McCullough.

Steve Hamilton, author: “Mystic River” by Dennis Lehane, “Hell to Pay” by George Pelecanos, “A Place of Execution” by Val McDermid, Garnet Hill trilogy by Denise Mina, “Underworld” by Don DeLillo, “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy, “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo.

Stacy Keach, actor: “Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway,” “Theodore Rex” by Edmund Morris, “Nights in Rodanthe” by Nicholas Sparks, “Embers” by Sandor Marai.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry: “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley with Ron Powers, “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen Ambrose.

U.S. Sen. John McCain: “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway.

T. Jefferson Parker, author: “Peace Like a River” by Leif Enger, “The Cadence of Grass” by Thomas McGuane, “True Confessions” by John Gregory Dunne, “Legends of the Fall” by Jim Harrison.

Peter Robinson, author: “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte.

Charles Schwab, investment counselor: “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay.

Ben Stein, author, actor and game show host: “John Brown’s Body” by Stephen Vincent Benet, Charles Paris mysteries by Simon Brett, “Samuel Johnson” by Walter Jackson Bate, “The Wealth of Nations” (abridged) by Adam Smith with Andrew Skinner, “Lolita” by Vladimir Nobokov, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Lee’s Lieutenants” by Douglas Southall Freeman.

Helen Thomas, journalist: “War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam,” edited by Ted Bartimas, books by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen.


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