DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – LIBRARIES ARE CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESSFUL FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY

In 2016, Newark-born novelist Philip Roth pledged to donate his personal book collection to the Newark Public Library on his death. In a press release, he likened the library to a second home:

“During that first year at Newark Rutgers, during the many hours each day when I didn’t have classes, the stacks and the reference room and the reading rooms of the main library were where I camped out when I wanted a quiet place to be alone to read or to study or to look something up. It was my other Newark home. My first other home.”

Along with the announcement came a list of books the inimitable author deemed most significant to his life and work.

Philip Roth

“The Adventures of Augie March” by Saul Bellow

“The Fall” by Albert Camus

“Cheri” by Colette

“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Citizen Tom Paine” by Howard Fast

“The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner

“Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert

“A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Trial” by Franz Kafka

“The Assistant” by Bernard Malamud

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

“Street of Crocodiles” by Bruno Schulz

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“Look Homeward, Angel” by Thomas Wolfe

“Finnley Wren” by Philip Wylie

Photograph of Philip Roth by Bob Peterson.

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