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Refinery 29 recently caught up with the amazing Tilda Swinton and asked her to compile a list of her favorite books this summer. We couldn’t help but jump for joy after seeing her final list of 12 fun, enlightening and classic page-turners. Be sure to pick up as many of these as possible. For the full article, click here.

1. Auntie Mame, Patrick Denise

2. A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor

3. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

4. Light Years, James Salter

5. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

6. Owning Your Own Shadow, Robert A. Johnson

7. The Child, the Family, and the Outside World, D.W. Winnicott

8. The Essential, P.G. Wodehouse

9. The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, Frank O’Hara

10. Modern Nature, Derek Jarman

11. Collected Poems of Sorley MacLean, Sorley MacLean

12. The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig, Norman MacCaig

What’s on your reading TBR list this summer? Let us know in the comments.

Genre: Poetry, Potpourri
Beth Wasko

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