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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