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30 Books Read By Anthony Bourdain
Hypelist - Updated 12/12/25
The dog-eared companions Anthony Bourdain carried through airports, kitchens and late nights on the road. We chose the books that fueled his appetite for truth, humor and beautifully messy humanity.
Books
Lolita
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov · 1989
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 2010
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell · 2010
Best Evidence Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
David S. Lifton · 1988
The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion · 2017
Essays George Orwell
George Orwell · 2020
The Quiet American
Graham Greene · 2018
A Collection of Essays
George Orwell · 1993
Devil in the Grove Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King · 2012
The Gaza Kitchen A Palestinian Culinary Journey
Laila El-Haddad, Maggie Schmitt · 2021
True Grit
Charles Portis · 2010
You're Better Than Me: A Memoir
Bonnie McFarlane · 2016
Prune
Gabrielle Hamilton · 2014
Rice, Noodle, Fish
Matt Goulding · 2015
The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock · 2012
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 2012
Adios, Motherfucker A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll
Michael Ruffino · 2017
Thrown
Kerry Howley · 2014
Crash A Novel
J. G. Ballard · 2017
Libra
Don DeLillo · 1991
A Brief History of Seven Killings A Novel
Marlon James · 2015
The Proud Highway
Hunter S. Thompson · 2011
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell · 1972
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