Jim Morrison
Bill Maher
Read by Jim Morrison, Bill Maher
byJoseph Conrad
2012160 Pages“My all-time favorite, even before Francis Ford Coppola turned it into Apocalypse Now. The ultimate topic, the ultimate metaphor. What great book couldn't have been called Heart of Darkness?”
— Bill Maher
Source: The Week, 'Bill Maher's Guide to Essential Reading'
byS.J. Perelman
1958650 Pages“The man who wrote many Marx Brothers movies was the greatest wordsmith America has ever produced. This collection brings together his comic essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. You have to read him with a dictionary, but it's worth it.”
— Bill Maher
Source: The Week, 'Bill Maher's Guide to Essential Reading'
Don Quixote
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
byMiguel de Cervantes
2003976 Pages“The fact that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have been ripped off as Ralph Kramden/Ed Norton and Fred Flintstone/Barney Rubble should tell you something about why this first great novel endures.”
— Bill Maher
Source: The Week, 'Bill Maher's Guide to Essential Reading'
Story of My Life
A Novel
byJay McInerney
1988208 Pages“Some say Jay McInerney partied too much and it hurt his output, but the fact that the party produced this brilliant, hysterically funny description of the party makes the partying worth it in my book.”
— Bill Maher
Source: The Week, 'Bill Maher's Guide to Essential Reading'
Elvis
A Biography
byAlbert Goldman
1981598 Pages“Denounced as tabloid trash when first published, this 1981 bio is anything but. Goldman has a brilliant eye for detail and larger-than-what-you-see analysis. And the descriptions of the way this hillbilly lived are just laugh-out-loud funny.”
— Bill Maher
Source: The Week, 'Bill Maher's Guide to Essential Reading'
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
bySteven Pinker
2018576 Pages“I loved it.”
— Bill Maher
Source: Steven Pinker's Official Website (Blurb)
The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
byJonathan Haidt
2024400 Pages“A clarion call.”
— Bill Maher
Source: Real Time with Bill Maher
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
byArianna Huffington
2014368 Pages“I read it in galleys, and it's one of the few worth reading again!”
— Bill Maher
Source: Bill Maher's Twitter
The War on the West
How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
byDouglas Murray
2022320 Pages“The War on the West is a brilliant book. Stop saying Western Civilization like it's a contradiction in terms.”
— Bill Maher
Source: Real Time with Bill Maher, 'New Rule: The War on the West'
Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy
From the Creator of Laugh-in
byGeorge Schlatter
2024300 Pages“If comedy is king, he's the kingmaker... He's really got stories and thank god somebody finally convinced him to write them down!”
— Bill Maher
Source: Book Blurb (Unnamed Press)