Fun Challenge: Cross-reference Your Reading History with Marilyn Monroe’s Books
Beyond the dazzling smile and iconic white dress, Marilyn Monroe cultivated a rich inner life. Evidence of this can be found in her personal library, a collection that shatters the stereotype of the ditsy blonde. Here, we delve into the books Marilyn Monroe read, revealing a woman curious about the world, literature, and beliefs. From American classics to European masterpieces, this list offers a glimpse into the mind of a complex and fascinating Hollywood legend.
Check off the titles you’ve completed below and see how you stack up to the iconic actress.
Marilyn Monroe's personal library reportedly contained works by Dostoevsky, Walt Whitman, and Arthur Miller, hinting at her intellectual curiosity and interest in philosophy, literature, and playwriting (the latter possibly influenced by her marriage to Miller).
1.) Let’s Make Love, by Matthew Andrews
2.) How to Travel Incognito, by Ludwig Bemelmans
3.) To the One I Love Best, by Ludwig Bemelmans
4.) Thurber Country, by James Thurber
5.) The Fall, by Albert Camus
6.) Marilyn Monroe, by George Carpozi
7.) Camille, by Alexander Dumas
8.) Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
9.) The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, by Fannie Merritt-Farmer
10.) The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11.) From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming
12.) The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm
13.) The Prophet, by Kahlil Gilbran
14.) Ulysses, by James Joyce
15.) Stoned Like A Statue: A Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical & Modern by Howard Kandel & Don Safran, with an intro, by Dean Martin
16.) The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis
17.) On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
18.) Selected Poems, by DH Lawrence
19. and 20.) Sons and Lovers, by DH Lawrence (2 editions)
21.) The Portable, by DH Lawrence
22.) Etruscan Places (DH Lawrence?)
23.) DH Lawrence: A Basic Study of His Ideas, by Mary Freeman
24.) The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
25.) The Magic Barrel, by Bernard Malamud
26.) Death In Venice & Seven Other Stories, by Thomas Mann
27.) Last Essays, by Thomas Mann
28.) The Thomas Mann Reader
29.) Hawaii, by James Michener
30.) Red Roses For Me, by Sean O’Casey
31.) I Knock at the Door, by Sean O’Casey
32.) Selected Plays, by Sean O’Casey
33.) The Green Crow, by Sean O’Casey
34.) Golden Boy, by Clifford Odets
35.) Clash By Night, by Clifford Odets
36.) The Country Girl, by Clifford Odets
37.) Six Plays of Clifford Odets
38.) The Cat With 2 Faces, by Gordon Young
39.) Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill
40.) Part of A Long Story: Eugene O’Neill As A Young Man In Love, by Agnes Boulton
41.) The Little Engine That Could, by Piper Watty
42.) The New Joy of Cooking, by Irma S. Rombauer & Marion Rombauer-Becker
43.) Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw
44.) Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw – A Correspondence
45.) Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell – Their Correspondence
46.) The Short Reigh of Pippin IV, by John Steinbeck
47.) Once There Was a War, by John Steinbeck
48.) Set This House on Fire, by William Styron
49.) Lie Down In Darkness
50.) The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, by Tennessee Williams
51.) Camino Real, by Tennessee Williams
52.) A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
53.) The Flower In Drama And Glamour, by Stark Young
American Literature
54.) Tender Is The Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
55.) The Story of A Novel, by Thomas Wolfe
56.) Look Homeward Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
57.) A Stone, A Leaf, A Door
58.) Thomas Wolfe’s Letters to His Mother, ed. John Skally Terry
59.) A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
60.) The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
61.) Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
62.) Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
63.) Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck
64.) The American Claimant & Other Stories & Sketches, by Mark Twain
65.) In Defence of Harriet Shelley & Other Essays
66.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
67.) Roughing It (Mark Twain?)
68.) The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern
69.) A Death In the Family, by James Agee
70.) The War Lover, by John Hersey
71.) Don’t Call Me By My Right Name & Other Stories, by James Purdy
72.) Malcolm by James Purdy
Anthologies
73.) The Portable Irish Reader (pub. Viking)
74.) The Portable Poe, by Edgar Allen Poe
75.) The Portable Walt Whitman
76.) This Week’s Short Stories (New York, 1953)
77.) Bedside Book of Famous Short Stories
78.) Short Novels of Colette
79.) Short Story Masterpieces (New York, 1960)
80.) The Passionate Playgoer, by George Oppenheimer
81.) Fancies And Goodnights, by John Collier
82.) Evergreen Review, Vol. 2, No. 6
83.) The Medal & Other Stories, by Luigi Pirandello
Art
84.) Max Weber (Art Book – Inscribed to Monroe by ‘Sam’ – Shaw?)
85.) Renoir, by Albert Skira
86.) Max, by Giovannetti Pericle
87.) The Family of Man, by Carl Sandburg
88.-90.) Horizon, A Magazine of the Arts (Nov 1959, Jan 1960, Mar 1960.)
91.) Jean Dubuffet, by Daniel Cordier
Biography
92.) The Summing Up, by W. Somerset Maugham
93.) Close To Colette, by Maurice Goudeket
94.) This Demi-Paradise, by Margaret Halsey
95.) God Protect Me from My Friends, by Gavin Maxwell
96.) Minister Of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story, by Quentin Reynolds, Ephraim Katz and Zwy Aldouby
97.) Dance To The Piper, by Agnes DeMille
98.) Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, by Mae West
99.) Act One, by Moss Hart
Christian
100.) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy
101.) Poems, Including Christ And Christmas, by Mary Baker Eddy
Classical Works
102.) 2 Plays: Peace and Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
103.) Of The Nature of Things, by Lucretius
104.) The Philosophy of Plato
105.) Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
106.) Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, by Aristotle
107.) Metaphysics, by Aristotle
108. to 111.) Plutarch’s Lives, Vols. 3-6 only (of 6), by William and John Langhorne
Counter-Culture
112.) Bound For Glory, by Woody Guthrie
113.) The Support of The Mysteries, by Paul Breslow
114.) Paris Blues, by Harold Flender
115.) The Shook-up Generation, by Harrison E. Salisbury
Foreign-Language Texts And Translations
116.) An Mands Ansigt, by Arthur Miller
117.) Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
118.) Mujer by Lina Rolan (Inscribed to Monroe by author)
119.) The Havamal, ed. D.E. Martin Clarke
120.) Yuan Mei: 18th Century Chinese Poet, by Arthur Waley
121.) Almanach: Das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer Verlag
French Literature
122.) Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
123.) The Works of Rabelais
124.) The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
125.) Cities of the Plain, by Marcel Proust
126.) Within a Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust
127.) The Sweet Cheat Gone, by Marcel Proust
128.) The Captive, by Marcel Proust
129.) Nana, by Emile Zola
130.) Plays, by Molière
Freud
131.) The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, by Ernest Jones
132.) Letters of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud
133.) Glory Reflected, by Martin Freud
134.) Moses and Monotheism, by Sigmund Freud
135.) Conditioned Reflex Therapy, by Andrew Salter
Gardening & Pets
136. and 137.) The Wise Garden Encyclopaedia, ed. E.L.D. Seymour
138.) Landscaping Your Own Home, by Alice Dustan
139.) Outpost Nurseries – publicity brochure
140.) The Forest and the Sea, by Marston Bates
141.) Pet Turtles, by Julien Bronson
142.) A Book About Bees, by Edwin Way Teale
143.) Codfish, Cats & Civilisation, by Gary Webster
Humour
144.) How to Do It, Or, The Art Of Lively Entertaining, by Elsa Maxwell
145.) Wake Up, Stupid, by Mark Harris
146.) Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, by Phyllis McGinley
147.) The Hero Maker, by Akbar Del Piombo & Norman Rubington
148.) How to Talk at Gin, by Ernie Kovacs
149.) VIP Tosses a Party, by Virgil Partch
150.) Who Blowed Up the House & Other Ozark Folk Tales, ed. Randolph Vance
151.) Snobs by Russell Lynes
Judaica (Marilyn Monroe officially converted to Judaism after marrying Miller).
152.) The Form of Daily Prayers
153.) Sephath Emeth (Speech of Truth): Order of Prayers for the Wholes Year In Jewish and English
154.) The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text
Literature
155.) The Law, by Roger Vailland
156.) The Building, by Peter Martin
157.) The Mermaids, by Boros
158.) They Came to Cordura, by Glendon Swarthout
159.) The 7th Cross, by Anna Seghers
160.) A European Education, by Romain Gary
161.) Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallie
162.) The Slide Area, by Gavin Lambert
163.) The Woman Who Was Poor, by Leon Bloy
164.) Green Mansions, by W.H. Hudson
165.) The Contenders, by John Wain
166.) The Best of All Worlds or What Voltaire Never Knew, by Hans Jorgen Lembourn
167.) The Story of Esther Costello, by Nicholas Monsarrat
168.) Oh, Careless Love, by Maurice Zolotow
169.) Add a Dash of Pity, by Peter Ustinov
170.) An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
171.) The Mark of the Warrior, by Paul Scott
172.) The Dancing Bear, by Edzard Schaper
173.) Miracle In the Rain, by Ben Hecht
174.) The Guide, by R.K. Narayan
175.) Blow up a Storm, by Garson Kanin
176.) Jonathan, by Russell O’Neill
177.) Fowlers End, by Gerald Kersh
178.) Hurricane Season, by Ralph Winnett
179.) The Un-Americans, by Alvah Bessie
180.) The Devil’s Advocate, by Morris L. West
181.) On Such A Night, by Anthony Quayle
182.) Say You Never Saw Me, by Arthur Nesbitt
183.) All the Naked Heroes, by Alan Kapener
184.) Jeremy Todd, by Hamilton Maule
185.) Miss America, by Daniel Stren
186.) Fever In the Blood, by William Pearson
187.) Spartacus, by Howard Fast
188.) Venetian Red by L.M. Pasinetti
189.) A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill, by Storm Jameson
190.) Six O’Clock Casual, by Henry W. Cune
191.) Mischief, by Charlotte Armstrong
192.) The Gingko Tree, by Sheelagh Burns
193.) The Mountain Road, by Theodore H. White
194.) Three Circles of Light, by Pietro Di Donato
195.) The Day the Money Stopped, by Brendan Gill
196.) The Carpetbaggers, by Harold Robbins
197. to 198.) Justine, by Lawrence Durrell (Possibly read during the filming of The Misfits)
199.) Balthazar, by Lawrence Durrell
200.) Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene
201.) The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
202.) The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett
203.) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, by Dylan Thomas
204.) Hear Us, O Lord from Heaven, Thy Dwelling Place, by Malcolm Lowry
Modern Library
205.) The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
206.) God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
207.) Anna Christie/The Emperor Jones/The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O’Neill
208.) The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, by Irwin Edman
209.) The Philosophy of Spinoza, by Joseph Ratner
210.) The Dubliners, by James Joyce
211.) Selected Poems, by Emily Dickinson
212.) The Collected Short Stories, by Dorothy Parker
213.) Selected Works, by Alexander Pope
214.) The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
215.) The Life of Michelangelo, by John Addington
216.) Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
217.) Three Famous French Romances
218.) Napoleon, by Emil Ludwig
219.) Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
220.) The Poems and Fairy-Tales, by Oscar Wilde
221.) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass/The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
222.) A High Wind In Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
223.) An Anthology of American Negro Literature, ed. Sylvestre C. Watkins
Music
224.) Beethoven: His Spiritual Development, by J.W.N. Sullivan
225.) Music for the Millions, by David Ewen
226.) Schubert, by Ralph Bates
227.) Men of Music, by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock
Plays
228.) The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
229.) Politics In the American Drama, by Caspar Nannes
230.) Sons Of Men, by Herschel Steinhardt
231.) Born Yesterday, by Garson Kanin
232.) Untitled & Other Radio Drams, by Norman Corwin
233.) Thirteen by Corwin, by Norman Corwin
234.) More by Corwin, by Norman Corwin
235.) Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill
236.) Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945–1951
237.) Theatre ’52, by John Chapman
238.) 16 Famous European Plays, by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
239.) The Complete Plays of Henry James
240.) 20 Best Plays of The Modern American Theatre, by John Glassner
241.) Elizabethan Plays, by Hazelton Spencer
242.) Critics’ Choice, by Jack Gaver
243.) Modern American Dramas, by Harlan Hatcher
244.) The Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club
European Poetry
245.) A Shropshire Lad, by A.E. Houseman
246.) The Poetry & Prose of Heinrich Heine, by Frederich Ewen
247.) The Poetical Works of John Milton, by H.C. Beeching
248.) The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (H.C. Beeching)
249.) Wordsworth, by Richard Wilbur
250.) The Poetical Works of Shelley
251.) The Portable Blake, by William Blake
252.) William Shakespeare: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton
253.) Poems of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie
254.) The Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. John Hayward
255) Aragon: Poet of The French Resistance, by Hannah Josephson & Malcolm Cowley
256.) Star Crossed, by Margaret Tilden
American Poetry
257. and 258.) Collected Sonnets, by Edna St Vincent Millay (2 Editions)
259.) Robert Frost’s Poems, by Louis Untermeyer (Marilyn befriended Untermeyer during her marriage to Arthur)
260.) Poe: Complete Poems, by Richard Wilbur
261.) The Life And Times of Archy And Mehitabel, by Don Marquis
262.) The Pocketbook of Modern Verse, by Oscar Williams
263.) Poems, by John Tagliabue
264.) Selected Poems, by Rafael Alberti
265.) Selected Poetry, by Robinson Jeffers
266.) The American Puritans: Their Prose & Poetry, by Perry Miller
267.) Selected Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
268.) Poet In New York, by Federico Garcia Lorca
269.) The Vapor Trail, by Ivan Lawrence Becker
270.) Love Poems & Love Letters For All the Year
271.) 100 Modern Poems, ed. Selden Rodman
272.) The Sweeniad, by Myra Buttle
273.) Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol. 70, no. 6
Politics
274.) The Wall Between, by Anne Braden
275.) The Roots of American Communism, by Theodore Draper
276.) A View of the Nation – An Anthology: 1955–1959, ed. Henry Christian
277.) A Socialist’s Faith, by Norman Thomas
278. to 279.) Rededication to Freedom, by Benjamin Ginzburg
280.) The Ignorant Armies, by E.M. Halliday
281.) Commonwealth Vs Sacco & Vanzetti, by Robert P. Weeks
282.) Journey to the Beginning, by Edgar Snow
283.) Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
284.) Lidice, by Eleanor Wheeler
285.) The Study of History, by Arnold Toynbee
286.) America the Invincible, by Emmet John Hughes
287.) The Unfinished Country, by Max Lerner
288.) Red Mirage, by John O’Kearney
289.) Background & Foreground—The New York Times Magazine: An Anthology, ed. Lester Markel
290.) The Failure of Success, by Esther Milner
291.) A Piece of My Mind, by Edmund Wilson
292.) The Truth About the Munich Crisis, by Viscount Maugham
293.) The Alienation of Modern Man, by Fritz Pappenheim
294.) A Train of Powder, by Rebecca West
295.) Report From Palermo, by Danilo Dolci
296.) The Devil In Massachusetts, by Marion Starkey
297.) American Rights: The Constitution In Action, by Walter Gellhorn
298.) Night, by Francis Pollini
299.) The Right of the People, by William Douglas
300.) The Jury Is Still Out, by Irwin Davidson and Richard Gehman
301.) First Degree, by William Kunstler
302.) Democracy In America, by Alexis De Tocqueville
303.) World Underworld, by Andrew Varna
Prayer
304.) Catechism for Young Children
305.) Prayer Changes Things
306.) The Prophet, by Kahlil Bibran
307.) The Magic Word L.I.D.G.T.T.F.T.A.T.I.M., by Robert Collier
308.) The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (it seems Monroe had multiple copies of this book)
309.) His Brother’s Keeper, by Milton Gross
310.) Christliches ergissmeinnicht, by K. Ehmann
311.) And It Was Told of a Certain Potter, by Walter C. Lanyon
312.) Bahai Prayers
Psychology
313.) Man Against Himself, by Karl A. Menninger
314.) The Tower and the Abyss, by Erich Kahler
315.) Something to Live By, by Dorothea S. Kopplin
316.) Man’s Supreme Inheritance, by Alexander F. Matthias
317.) The Miracles of Your Mind, by Joseph Murphy
318.) The Wisdom of the Sands, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
319.) A Prison, A Paradise, by Loran Hurnscot
320.) The Magic of Believing, by Claude M. Bristol
321.) Peace of Mind, by Joshua Loth Liebman
322.) The Use of the Self, by Alexander F. Matthias
323.) The Power Within You, by Claude M. Bristol
324.) The Call Girl, by Harold Greenwald
325.) Troubled Women, by Lucy Freeman
326.) Relax and Live, by Joseph A. Kennedy
327.) Forever Young, Forever Healthy, by Indra Devi
328.) The Open Self, by Charles Morris
329.) Hypnotism Today, by Leslie Lecron & Jean Bordeaux
330.) The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, by Joseph Campbell
331.) Some Characteristics of Today, by Rudolph Steiner
Reference
332.) Baby & Child Care, by Dr Benjamin Spock
333.) Flower Arranging For Fun, by Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop
334.) Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary: French-English and English-French
335.) Spoken French for Travellers and Tourists, by Charles Kany & Mathurin Dondo
336.) Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus, by C.O. Mawson & K.A. Whiting
Religion
337.) What Is a Jew?, by Morris Kertzer
338.) A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem, by Milton Steinberg
339.) The Tales of Rabbi Nachman, by Martin Buber
340.) The Saviours of God: Spiritual Exercises, by Nikos Kazantzakis
341.) The Prophet, by Kahlil Gilbran
342.) The Dead Sea Scrolls, by Millar Burrows
343.) The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics, by Jean Doresse
344.) Jesus, by Kahlil Gilbran
345.) Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
346.) Why I Am Not a Christian, by Bertrand Russell
Russian Literature
347.) Redemption & Other Plays, by Leo Tolstoy
348.) The Viking Library Portable, by Anton Chekhov
349.) The House of the Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
350.) Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
351.) Best Russian Stories: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Seltzer
352.) The Plays of Anton Chekhov
353.) Smoke, by Ivan Turgenev
354.) The Poems, Prose & Plays of Alexander Pushkin
355.) The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Science
356.) Our Knowledge of the External World, by Bertrand Russell
357.) Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, by Bertrand Russell
358.) Out Of My Later Years, by Albert Einstein
359.) Men and Atoms, by William Laurence
360.) Man Alive, by Daniel Colin Munro (Inscribed to Renna Campbell from Lorraine?)
361.) Doctor Pygmalion, by Maxwell Maltz
362.) Panorama: A New Review, ed. R.F. Tannenbaum
363.) Everyman’s Search, by Rebecca Beard
364.) Of Stars and Men, by Harlow Shapley
365.) From Hiroshima to the Moon, by Daniel Lang
366.) The Open Mind, by J. Robert Oppenheimer
367.) Sexual Impotence in the Male, by Leonard Paul Wershub
Scripts And Readings
368.) Medea, by Jeffers Robinson
369.) Antigone, by Jean Anouilh
370.) Bell, Book and Candle, by John Van Druten
371.) The Women, by Clare Boothe
372.) Jean of Lorraine, by Maxwell Anderson
Travel
373.) The Sawbwa and His Secretary, by C.Y. Lee
374.) The Twain Shall Meet, by Christopher Rand
375.) Kingdom of the Rocks, by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
376.) The Heart of India, by Alexander Campbell
377.) Man-Eaters of India, by Jim Corbett
378.) Jungle Lore, by Jim Corbett
379.) My India, by Jim Corbett
380.) A Time In Rome, by Elizabeth Bowen
381.) London, by Jacques Boussard
382.) New York State Vacationlands
383.) Russian Journey, by William O. Douglas
384.) The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer
Women Authors
385.) The Portable, by Dorothy Parker
386.) My Antonia, by Willa Cather
387.) Lucy Gayheart, by Willa Cather
388.) The Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers
389.) The Short Novels of Colette
390.) The Little Disturbances of Man, by Grace Paley
Here are a few other books which weren’t included on her shelves, but Monroe was reported to have read or owned them. Most on the list are cited in the Unabridged Marilyn.
391.) The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
392. to 403.) Carl Sandburg’s 12-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln
404.) The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
405.) Poems of W.B. Yeats (Monroe read his poems aloud at Norman Rosten’s house)
406.) Mr. Roberts, by Joyce Cary
407.) The Thinking Body, by Mabel Elsworth Todd
408.) The Actor Prepares, by Konstantin Stanislavsky
409.) The Bible
410.) The Biography of Eleanora Duse, by William Weaver
411.) De Humani Corporis Fabrica, by Andreas Vesalius
412.) Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
413.) Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A, by Richard Aldrich
414.) Goodnight, Sweet Prince, by Gene Fowler
415.) Greek Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
416.) How Stanislavsky Directs, by Mikhail Gorchakov
417.) I Married Adventure, by Olso Johnson
418.) The Importance of Living, by Lin Yutang
419.) Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
420.) Psychology of Everyday Life, by Sigmund Freud
421.) The Rains Came, by Louis Broomfield
422.) The Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine
423.) Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
424.) To the Actor, by Michael Chekhov
425.) Captain Newman, M.D.
426.) Songs for Patricia, by Norman Rosten
427.) A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (Monroe's production company considered an adaptation, but Cather revoked the film rights after a prior disappointing one.)
428.) Lust for Life, by Irving Stone
429.) The Deer Park, by Norman Mailer
430.) The Rebel, by Albert Camus
This list provides a fascinating window into the intellectual pursuits of Marilyn Monroe. Far from a one-dimensional starlet, she was a reader with a wide-ranging curiosity. These books entertained her and likely informed her approach to acting and her understanding of the world around her.
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