Marilyn Monroe Personal Library
When you think of Marilyn Monroe, the photo of her wearing a sexy, white dress blowing in the air often comes to mind. And she isn’t the dumb blond that many may think she is.
In fact, Marilyn Monroe was well read and had over 400 books in her personal library from various genres. Genres include: American literature, French literature, Russian literature, poetry, plays, art, music, science, biographies, gardening and pets, humor, politics, religion, psychology, reference, travel and much more.
It is true that she may not have read all the books on her bookshelf. Think of the many unread books in your personal library. But I suspect that she read many of them. Like the other successful people, who we have profiled in the series, Marilyn Monroe read broadly. And she read books that often made her think.
I read the background on Marilyn Monroe to write this introduction, and I struggled with what to include because although several of her films were successes, she led a troubled life, and was unable to sustain relationships.
In the end, I decided that I did not want to comment because there is so much already written about her, which readers can easily access. Since writing this blog post, I've read Marilyn: Norma Jeane by Gloria Steinhem which I'll review.
Continuous learning is a part of life. If you’re not a reader, you can find a synopsis of many books from Readitforme that you can listen to. Click the link to join. This is a great way to learn the latest thinking on many topics. And it is a great way to learn which books to buy and devour.
What can I say that you have not already heard? What I do want to say is that if you chose 52 books from her personal library, from a variety of genres, you will start the process to shaping a successful mind. The quality of the books that you read is an important element in the success formula.
This post was made possible because of The 430 Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Library: How Many Have You Read?, a post on Open Culture.
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The 430 Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Library: How Many Have You Read?
Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Personal Library
- Let's Make Love by Matthew Andrews
- How to Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmans
- To the One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Species by James Thurber
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- Marilyn Monroe Her Own Story by George Carpozi
- Camille by Alexander Dumas
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt-Farmer
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- From Russia with Love (James Bond) by Ian Fleming
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Stoned Like a Statue a Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches Primitive, Classical and Modern by Howard Kandel & Don Safran
- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by DH Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers (Dover Thrift Editions) by DH Lawrence
- The Portable D. H. Lawrence (Viking Portable Library) DH Lawrence
- Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) by DH Lawrence
- D. H. Lawrence: A Basic Study Of His Ideas by Mary Freeman
- The Assistant: A Novel by Bernard Malamud
- The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard Malamud
-
Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
- Last Essays by Thomas Mann
- The Thomas Mann Reader
- Hawaii by James Michener
- Red Roses for Me (Sean O'Casey: Plays 1: Juno and the Paycock, Within the Gates; Red Roses; Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber)) (Vol 1)) by Sean O’Casey
- I Knock At the Door (Autobiography, Vol. 1: I Knock at the Door) by Sean O’Casey
- Selected plays of Sean O'Casey by Sean O’Casey
- The Green Crows by Sean O’Casey
- Golden Boy: Acting Edition by Clifford Odets
- Clash By Night by Clifford Odets
- The Country Girl by Clifford Odets
- Six Plays of Clifford Odets
- The Cat with Two Faces:The Most Amazing Spy Story of the Second World War (Mathiby Gordon Young
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
- Part Of A Long Story: Eugene O'Neill As A Young Man In Love by Agnes Boulton
- The Little Engine That Could (Little Letters Edition) by Piper Watty
-
Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer & Marion Rombauer-Becker
- George Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays
- Ellen Terry & Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence
- Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
- The Short Reigh of Pippin IV Hilarious and Affectionate Spoof.by John Steinbeck
- Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
- Set This House on Fire by William Styron
- Lie Down in Darkness William Styron
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
- Camino Real (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams
- A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams (with notes by MM)
- The Flower in Drama & Glamour: Theatre essays and criticism by Stark Young
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Story of a Novel by Thomas Wolfe
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
- A Stone, A Leaf, A Door, Thomas Wolfe
- Thomas Wolfe's letters to his mother, Julia Elizabeth Wolfe,, ed. John Skally Terry
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
-
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- Sister Carrie (Dover Thrift Editions) by Theodore Dreiser
- Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
- The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches by Mark Twain
- In Defense of Harriet Shelley: And Other Essays (Mark Twain?)
- Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Roughing It (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
- The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
- A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics) by James Agee
- The War Lover by John Hersey
- Don't call me by my right name: And other stories by James Purdy
- Malcolm by James Purdy
- The Portable Irish Reader
- The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics)
- The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)
- Short Novels of Colette
- Short Story Masterpieces (New York, 1960)
- The Passionate Playgoer: A Personal Scrapbook by George Oppenheimer
- Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books) by John Collier
- Evergreen Review, Vol. 2, No. 6
- The Medals and Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello
- Renoir by Albert Skira
- Max by Giovannetti Pericle
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THE FAMILY OF MAN : The greatest photographic exhibition of all time- 503 pictures from 68 countries- created by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art by Carl Sandburg
- Horizon, a Magazine of the Arts (Horizon – A Magazine of the Arts : January 1959 : Volume I, Number 3)
- Jean Dubuffet (The drawings of Jean Dubuffet) by Daniel Cordier
- Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
- Close to Colette: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman of Genius (Illustrated) by Maurice Goudeket
- This Demi-Paradise by Margaret Halsey
- God Protect Me from My Friends by Gavin Maxwell
- Minister of death: the Adolf Eichmann story by Quentin Reynolds, Ephraim Katz and Zwy Aldouby
- Dance to the Piper by Agnes DeMille
- Goodness had nothing to do with it: The Autobiography of Mae West by Mae West
- Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Study Edition) by Mary Baker Eddy
- Poems Including Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy
- Two plays: Peace and Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
- Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and Translation of the Poetics (Classic Reprint)) by Aristotle
- The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
- Bound for Glory (Plume) by Woody Guthrie
- Paris Blues by Harold Flender
- The Shook-Up Generationby Harrison E. Salisbury
-
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- The Havamal, (The Havamal – Sayings of the High One) ed. D.E. Martin Clarke
- Yuan Mei, Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. by Arthur Waley
- Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
- The Works of Rabelais
- The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
- Cities of the Plain (Remembrance of Things Past , Part Five) by Marcel Proust
- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
- The Sweet Cheat Gone: An autobiography [The Modern Library] by Marcel Proust
- The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) (v. 5) by Marcel Proust
- Nana (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola
- Plays (Moliere Five Plays: “The School for Wives”, “Tartuffe”, “The Misanthrope”, “The Miser”, “The Hypochondriac” (World Classics)) by Moliere
- Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
- Letters of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud
- Glory Reflected: Sigmund Freud-Man and Father By His Eldest Son by Martin Freud
- Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
- Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Andrew Salter
- The Wise Garden Encyclopedia, ed. E.L.D. Seymour
- Landscaping your Own Home by Alice Dustan
- The Forest and The Sea: A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man (Time Reading Program Special Edition) by Marston Bates
- Pet turtles by Julien Bronson
- A Book About Bees by Edwin Way Teale
-
Codfish, Cats and Civilization by Gary Webster
- How To Do It: Or The Lively Art Of Entertaining by Elsa Maxwell
-
Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris
- Merry Christmas, Happy New Year by Phyllis McGinley
- THE HERO MAKER a Far-out Book by Akbar Del Piombo and Norman Rubington
- How To Talk at Gin by Ernie Kovacs
- Vip Tosses a Party 1ST Edition, by Virgil Partch
- Who Blowed Up the Church House? And Other Ozark Folk Tales ed. Randolph Vance
- Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself by Russell Lynes
- Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text
- The Law by Roger Vailland
- The Mermaids by Boros
-
They Came To Cordura by Glendon Swarthout
- The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
- A European Education by Romain Gary
- Strike for a Kingdom (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics) by Menna Gallie
- The Slide Area (Midnight Classics) by Gavin Lambert
- The woman who was poor,: A contemporary novel of the French ‘eighties, by Leon Bloy
- Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by W.H. Hudson
- The Contenders by John Wain
- The Best of All Worlds or What Voltaire Never Knew by Hans Jorgen Lembourn
- The Story Of Esther Costello by Nicholas Montsarrat
- Oh Careless Love by Maurice Zolotow (MM biographer)
- Add a Dash of Pity by Peter Ustinov
- An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
- The Mark of the Warrior by Paul Scott
- The Dancing Bear by Edzard Schaper
- A Miracle in the Rain by Ben Hecht
- The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics) by R.K. Narayan
- Blow up a storm by Garson Kanin
- Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh
- Hurricane season by Ralph Winnett
- The Devil's Advocate (Loyola Classics) by Morris L. West
- ON SUCH A NIGHT by Anthony Quayle
- Say You Never Saw Me by Arthur Nesbitt
- All the Naked Heroes by Alan Kapelner
- Jeremy Todd by Hamilton Maule
- Miss America by Daniel Stern
- A fever in the blood by William Pearson
- Spartacus (North Castle Books) by Howard Fast
- Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill by Storm Jameson
- Six O'clock Casual by Henry W. Cune
- Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
- The Ginkgo Tree by Sheelagh Burns
-
The Mountain Road by Theodore H. White
- Three Circles of Light by Pietro Di Donato
- The Day the Money Stopped by Brendan Gill
- The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins (
- Justine (Alexandria) by Lawrence Durrell
- Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durrell
- Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
- The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
- Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
- Dylan Thomas: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog by Dylan Thomas (
- Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (Milestones in Canadian Literature), by Malcolm Lowry
- The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying (A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)), by William Faulkner
- God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
- Three Great Plays: The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape (Dover Thrift Editions) by Eugene
- The Philosophy Of Schopenhauer by Irwin Edman
- The Philosophy of Spinoza. Modern Library #60 by Joseph Ratner
- Dubliners (Penguin Classics Deluxe) by James Joyce
- Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Emily Dickinson
- Complete Stories (Penguin Classics) by Dorothy Parker
- SELECTED WORKS Of ALEXANDER POPE. Modern Library #257. Edited, and with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. by Alexander Pope
- The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
- The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington
- Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
- Three Famous French Romances: Sapho; Manon Lescaut; Carmen Antoine Francois Prevost, Proper Merimee Alphonse Daudet
- Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
-
Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
- The Poems and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass & The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
- A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes
- Anthology of American Negro Literature, ed. Sylvestre C. Watkins
- Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan
- Music For The Millions: The Encyclopedia Of Musical Masterpieces by David Ewen
- Franz Schubert, by Ralph Bates
- Men of Music by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock
- The Potting Shed (Penguin Plays & Screenplays) by Graham Greene
- Politics in the American drama by Caspar Nannes
- Sons of Men by Herschel Steinhardt
- Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
- Untitled and Other Radio Dramas by Norman Corwin
- More by Corwin: 16 radio dramas, by Norman Corwin
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
- Best American Plays (Third Series, 1945-1951)
- Sixteen Famous European Plays: All Complete and Unabridged, by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
- The Complete Plays of Henry James
- Elizabethan Plays, Written By Shakespeare's Friends, Colleagues, Rivals, and Successors… by Hazelton Spencer
- Critics' Choice; New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-55 by Jack Gaver
- Modern American Dramas by Harlan Hatcher
- The Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club: Containing Original and Select Papers On the Drama, and the Proceedings of That Society, with Illustrations
- A Shropshire Lad: Poems by A. E. Houseman by A.E. Houseman
- The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine by Frederic Ewen
- The Poetical Works of John Milton, by H.C. Beeching
- The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
- Wordsworth by Richard Wilbur
- Shelley: Poetical Works
-
The Portable William Blake (Portable Library), by William Blake
- William Shakespeare Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton
- Robert Burns: Poems, ed. Henry Meikle and William Beattie
- The Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. John Hayward
- Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance, by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley
- Collected Sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay
- Robert Frost’s Poems (New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems) by Louis Untermeyer
- Poe: Complete Poems by Richard Wilbur
- The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
- A Pocketbook of Modern Verse by Oscar Williams
- Poems by John Tagliabue
- Selected Poems by Rafael Alberti
- The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers
- The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry, by Perry Miller
- Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Poet in New York: A Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish Edition) by Federico Garcia Lorca
- Vapor Trail, The – Poetic Tributes to Slain World War II Hearoes of Air Group 21 and the Carrier Raiding Star by Ivan Lawrence Becker
- Love Poems & Love Letters for All the Year
- One Hundred Modern Poems, ed. Selden Rodman
- The Sweeniad by Myra Buttle
- Poetry a Magazine of Verse.Volume 70 No. 6
- The Wall Between by Anne Braden
- The Roots of American Communism by Theodore Draper
- A View of the Nation an Anthology: 1955-1959, ed. Henry Christman
- A socialist's faith by Norman Thomas
- Rededication to Freedom by Benjamin Ginzburg
- The Ignorant Armies by E.M. Halliday
- Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti by Robert P. Weeks
-
Journey to the Beginning by Edgar Snow
- Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- Lidice by Eleanor Wheeler
- A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee
- America The Invincible – A Study of America's Role in World Affairs by Emmet John Hughes
- The Unfinished Country by Max Lerner
- Red Mirage by John O’Kearney
- Background and Foreground: An Anthology Articles from the New York Times Magazine, ed. Lester
- The Failure of Success: The Middle-class Crisis by Esther Milner
- A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty by Edmund Wilson
- The Truth About the Munich Crisis by Viscount Maugham
- Alienation Modern Man by Fritz Pappenheim
- A Train of Powder by Rebecca West
- Report from Palermo by Danilo Dolci
- The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials by Marion Starkey
- American Rights; the Constitution in Action by Walter Gellhorn
- Night by Francis Pollini
- The Right of the People by William Douglas
- The Jury is Still Out by Irwin Davidson and Richard Gehman
- First degree by William Kunstler
-
Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis De Tocqueville
- World Underworld by Andrew Varna
- Catechism for Young Children: Original Edition
- The Prophet (A Borzoi Book) by Kahlil Gibran
- The Magic Word – “L-I-D-G-T-T-F-T-A-T-I-M” by Robert Collier
- It Was Told of a Certain Potter by Walter C. Lanyon
- Man Against Himself by Karl A. Menninger
- The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of the Individual by Erich Kahler
- Something to Live By, by Dorothea S. Kopplin
- Man's Supreme Inheritance: Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution by Alexander F. Matthias
- The Miracles of Your Mind by Joseph Murphy
- Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Prison, a Paradise by Loran Hurnscot
- The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol
- Peace of Mind by Joshua Loth Liebman
- The Use of the Self by Alexander F. Matthias
- TNT: The Power Within You by Claude M. Bristol
- The Call Girl by Harold Greenwald
- Troubled Women by Lucy Freeman
- Relax and Live by Joseph A. Kennedy
- Forever Young Forever Healthy by Indra Devi
- The Open Self by Charles Morris
- Hypnotism Today by Leslie Lecron and Jean Bordeaux
- Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, by Joseph Campbell
- Some Characteristics of To-Day; A Lecture by Dr. Rudolph Steiner Given at Heidenheim on the 12th June, 1919 by Rudolph Steiner
- Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition (pub. 1958)
- Flower Arranging for Fun. by Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop
-
What is a Jew? by Morris Kertzer
-
A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem by Milton Steinberg
- Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber
- The Saviours of God: Spiritual Exercises by Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows
- The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion, by Jean Doresse
- Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
- Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
- Redemption and Other Plays by Leo Tolstoy
- The Portable Chekhov (Portable Library)by Anton Chekhov
- The House of the Dead (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Plays of Anton Chekhov
- Smoke by Ivan Turgenev
- The Poems, Prose and Plays of Pushkin
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Our Knowledge of the External World (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
- Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell
- Out of My Later Years by Albert Einstein
- Men and Atoms: The Discovery, the Uses and the Future of Atomic Enery by William Laurence
- Man Alive, You're Half Dead! by Daniel Colin Munro
- Doctor Pygmalion: The Autobiogrphy of a Plastic Surgeon by Maxwell Maltz
- Everyman's Search by Rebecca Beard
- Of Stars And Man by Harlow Shapley
- From Hiroshima To The Moon by Daniel Lang
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The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Sexual Impotence In The Male: The Psychic Disorders Of The Sexual Function Of The Male by Leonard Paul Wershub
- Medea by Jeffers Robinson
- Antigone (Methuen Drama, Methuen Student Edition) by Jean Anouilh
- Bell, Book and Candle: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Van Druten
- The Women. by Clare Boothe
- Joan of Lorraine. by Maxwell Anderson
- The Sawbwa And His Secretary My Burmese Reminiscences by C.Y. Lee
- The Twain Shall Meet by Christopher Rand
- Kingdom of the Rocks; Memories of Oppède by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
- The Heart Of India by Alexander Campbell
- Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Jim Corbett
- Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett
- My India (1952) by Jim Corbett
- A Time In Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
-
London by Jacques Boussard
- Russian Journey by William O. Douglas
- Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore by James G. Frazer
- The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Lucy Gayheart (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
- Short Novels of Colette
- The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction) by Grace Paley
- The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book)
- Carl Sandburg’s 12-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years/Walden/The Life of Samuel Johnson/Margaret Sanger: Birth Control Pioneer (Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies, Volume 12))
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
- The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd
- An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky
-
Duse: A Biography, by William Weaver
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Latin Edition) by Andreas Vesalius
- The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A., by Richard Aldrich
- Goodnight, Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler
- Greek Mythology (Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes) by Edith Hamilton
- I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (Kodansha Globe)
- The Importance Of Living by Lin Yutang
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (The Standard Edition) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) by Sigmund Freud
- Rains Came: A Novel of India by Louis Bromfield
- Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Paine
-
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- To the Actor by Michael Chekhov
- Captain Newman, M.D.
- Songs for Patricia by Norman Rosten
- A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
- Lust for Lifeby Irving Stone
- The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
- The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
Final Thoughts: Marilyn Monroe Personal Library
How many of the books listed above have you read? Are you surprised by the book titles in Marilyn Monroe Personal Library? I must admit that when I started reviewing the books on the list, I was surprised. The topic of the books do not align with the image we have of her.
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