Stunning, alluring, and ultimately tragic, the Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch actress, Marilyn Monroe, was more than a blonde bombshell, Hollywood star, singer, and sex symbol.
Marilyn Monroe was an avid reader.
The 430 books found in Marilyn Monroe’s library contained a vast variety of subjects and genres.
Marilyn Monroe said, “If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”
Here’s a sampling of Marilyn Monroe’s favorite books.
1.
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
2.
Roughing It by Mark Twain
3.
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
4.
Ulysses by James Joyce
5.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
6.
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
7.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
8.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
9.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
10.
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
11.
12.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
13.
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
14.
Landscaping Your Own Home by Alice Dustan
15.
How to Do It, Or, The Art of Lively Entertaining by Elsa Maxwell
16.
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
17.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
18.
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
19.
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
20.
The Sound and the Fury/ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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