Jude Law Favorite Books - 15 Stunning Reads
Jude Law
The full and updated list of Jude Law book recommendations. He is an avid reader that is usually reading up to 4 books at the same time, digging into poetry, prose and often transforming his reading experience into character's portrayal. Enjoy the list of Jude Law's favorite books!
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Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin
We haven’t even touched on poetry. “And the wave sings because it is moving” – that poem by Larkin – I had it on my fridge for a while, and then it was in a folded-up piece of paper by my bed for four years, because it moved me so much,...
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Hamlet
He still – how predictable am I? – but he does still take my breath away. For someone who was such a great creator of characters, he’s also incredibly gentle in suggesting it’s you. Hamlet, in particular, is one.When you play him, he...
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The Merchant of Venice
Another perspective on reading and interpreting the written word is theatre. Shakespeare, in a way for me, was a real signal, as a schoolboy. I remember sitting in a class at 13 or 14, and we were reading The Merchant of Venice, and I...
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Peanuts: Friends Forever
Someone recently gave me the re-editions of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts, supposedly for the kids, but I was like: those are mine. They’re going in my library! When I was a kid, Americana was a vague flirtation, so you’d maybe watch Dallas or...
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The Italian Girl
Inside our own head, we’re all our leading man or leading lady. She seemed to tap into that. And also, in some of them – I’m thinking of The Italian Girl – there’s a fantastical quality, a world of poetry, but all in the characters’...
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
That was an interesting turn in my life – reading to my kids, because my dad read a lot to me. Salman Rushdie, who I’d read as an adult, I then read his two Haroun books to them.
The Hobbit
I read The Hobbit three times – to each of the children. I read it to Raf, then to Rudy, then to Iris. They loved it.
The Songlines
But also, one of the things that was a left-of-field influence at that time was The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. The idea of walking away from problems, that life is a constant journey – that, poetically, had a massive influence on Inman...
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The Red Badge of Courage
But then, from that you go to things like Whitman – or even, funnily enough, I remember buying the book of Bob Dylan’s lyrics. And Red Badge of Courage [Stephen Crane], because you just want to submerge yourself.
The Lyrics
But then, from that you go to things like Whitman – or even, funnily enough, I remember buying the book of Bob Dylan’s lyrics. And Red Badge of Courage [Stephen Crane], because you just want to submerge yourself.
Cold Mountain
An interesting journey I went on was when I did Cold Mountain [Anthony Minghella’s 2003 film of Charles Frazier’s book]. So there’s this extraordinary book, which became the 'bible’.
Fluke
I remember loving The Indian in the Cupboard [by Lynne Reid Banks]; I remember reading Fluke by James Herbert. Emil and the Detectives was a favourite of mine.
The Indian in the Cupboard
I remember loving The Indian in the Cupboard [by Lynne Reid Banks]; I remember reading Fluke by James Herbert. Emil and the Detectives was a favourite of mine.
Chess Story
When Wes Anderson cast him in The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was based on the writing of Stefan Zweig, Law was stunned by Zweig’s merciless novel Beware of Pity, and the last book Zweig wrote before he killed himself, Chess Story.
Beware of Pity
When Wes Anderson cast him in The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was based on the writing of Stefan Zweig, Law was stunned by Zweig’s merciless novel Beware of Pity, and the last book Zweig wrote before he killed himself, Chess Story.
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