Tom Hanks
Actor, Author, Director, Producer
Tom Hanks is an American actor, filmmaker and author known for films including Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan. He co-founded the production company Playtone and wrote Uncommon Type (2017) and the novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (2023).
Tom Hanks's 23 Book Recommendations
- The Martian: “Andy Weir's masterpiece! Jealous of Matt Damon!”
- Bossypants: “If you haven't read Tina Fey's Bossypants, you will, and whatever you are drinking will come out of your nose due to laughter.”
- Redshirts: “My Summer reading. REDSHIRTS, then anything else by John Scalzi!”
- A Hologram for the King: “Read these: A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. Dave Eggars & I REMEMBER NOTHING. Nora Ephron. You will remember both.”
- I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections: “Read these: A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. Dave Eggars & I REMEMBER NOTHING. Nora Ephron. You will remember both.”
- Kingdom of Shadows: “Another Furst: KINGDOM OF SHADOWS. Paris 1938. Can't help but aim to read ALL Furst's historical spy novels.”
- Night: “I read you: NIGHT, PILLARS OF THE EARTH, & UNBROKEN all superb.”
- The Pillars of the Earth: “I read you: NIGHT, PILLARS OF THE EARTH, & UNBROKEN all superb.”
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption: “I read you: NIGHT, PILLARS OF THE EARTH, & UNBROKEN all superb.”
- The Spies of Warsaw: “Read Alan Furst's SPIES OF WARSAW, my first Furst with more to come. Am I recommending too often?”
- The Sword and the Scimitar: “Book! THE SWORD AND THE SCIMITAR by David Ball. 2 Malta as Shogun was 2 Japan. Page turner, loaded with history.”
- A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age: “Try A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE by Wm Manchester. i've read it 4 times!”
- The Art of Fielding: “Reading suggestion for Suz YGames: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.”
- 1493: “A book! Excellent and fascinating and MY KINDA TOME: "1493 - Uncovering The New World Columbus Created".”
- Sapiens: “Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens." That fellow connected an awful lot of dots in that work.”
- Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem: “Anyone read the BERNIE GUNTHER books? Start with "Berlin Noir".”
- All That I Am: “Another Book Suggestion: ALL THAT I AM, by Anna Funder, who also wrote STASILAND.”
- Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War: “try GOODBYE DARKNESS by Wm Manchester -- about the Pacific War. it has the 'touch'.”
- Barkskins: “Could not read this fast enough. Now sorry I've finished!”
- Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give: “Ada Calhoun's "Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give." I mean, underlining and yellow marker bust-out laughs.”
- Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam: “"Hue 1968," by Mark Bowden. Dear God, the horrors and the waste.”
- Light a Penny Candle: “Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since "Light a Penny Candle."”
- The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972: “If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? "The Glory and the Dream" by William Manchester.”