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Kamasi Washington, Carrie Brownstein, Neko Case, More Share Favorite Books of the Year

Kamasi Washington, Carrie Brownstein, Neko Case, Moby, and Paul Simon have shared their favorite books of the year for a new roundup published in the New York Times. Their reading selections feature classics (Washington read Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn novels while nursing an ankle injury), memoirs (Herbie Hancock and novelist John Cheever’s autobiographical writings are included), and books on race and politics in America. Check out the artists’ picks below, and find the full roundup here.

Kamasi Washington

Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Hazrat Inayat Khan – The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Herbie Hancock – Possibilities

Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow

Carrie Brownstein

Zadie Smith – Swing Time

George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo

Rick Perlstein – Nixonland

Jesmyn Ward (editor) – The Fire This Time

Brit Bennett – The Mothers

Neko Case

Adrienne Mayor – The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

C. Vann Woodward – The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Paul Simon

Don DeLillo – Zero K

Billy Collins – The Rain in Portugal

Edward O. Wilson – Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life

Moby

John Cheever – The Journals of John Cheever

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