Required reading: You
Every book seen in You, in order of appearance.
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, 2003Dan Brown's 2003 thriller opens with a murder in the Louvre, and this cover parks the Mona Lisa's eyes right under the title.
Seen in S1 E1, Guinevere Beck · 45:41BuyDon Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Cervantes published part one in 1605, and it gets called the first modern novel more than anything else does.
Seen in S1 E1, Joe Goldberg · 22:13BuyDesperate Characters
Paula Fox, 1970Paula Fox's 1970 novel follows a childless Brooklyn couple through a long weekend after a stray cat bites the wife.
Seen in S1 E1, Guinevere BeckBuyFranny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger, 1961Salinger collected two New Yorker stories about the Glass family into this 1961 book.
Seen in S1 E1, Guinevere BeckBuySleeping Beauties
Stephen King and Owen King, 2017King's 2017 novel, written with his son Owen, imagines every woman who falls asleep waking up wrapped in a cocoon.
Seen in S1 E2, Joe GoldbergBuyAn American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser, 1925Dreiser based it on a real 1906 murder case.
Seen in S1 E7, Joe GoldbergBuyPlay It As It Lays
Joan Didion, 1970Didion's 1970 novel follows an actress drifting through Hollywood who can't find a reason to keep playing along.
Seen in S2 E1, Love QuinnBuyCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Dostoevsky published it in 1866, and it is about a student who kills a pawnbroker and then spends several hundred pages being argued with by his own conscience.
Seen in S2 E1, Joe GoldbergBuyDaring Greatly
Brené Brown, 2012Brown's 2012 book takes its title from Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 "man in the arena" speech.
Seen in S2 E2, Joe GoldbergBuyNostromo
Joseph Conrad, 1904The title character is a man everyone calls incorruptible, right up until he isn't.
Seen in S2 E3, Joe GoldbergBuyFarewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler, 1940Chandler's 1940 Philip Marlowe novel opens with Marlowe running into Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con looking for the girl he went away for.
Seen in S2 E6, Joe GoldbergBuyBrave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932Huxley published it in 1932, and its world runs on a drug called soma.
Seen in S2 E10, Joe's new neighborBuyThe Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, 1844Dumas ran it as a newspaper serial in 1844.
Seen in Joe GoldbergBuyFrankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818Mary Shelley was 20 when this came out anonymously in 1818.
Seen in Joe GoldbergBuyOzma of Oz
L. Frank Baum, 1907L. Frank Baum's third Oz book, from 1907, is the one where Dorothy washes up in a new country with a talking hen named Billina.
Seen in Joe GoldbergBuyWuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, 1847Emily Brontë published it in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell.
Seen in Joe GoldbergBuyThe Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, 1844Dumas again, also 1844, about a man wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years who plans every detail of what he does next.
Seen in Joe GoldbergBuy
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