Michael Jackson and books
It was Rose who instilled in me a love of books and literature that sustains me today. I read everything I could get my hands on. New cities meant new places to shop. We loved to shop, especially in bookstores and department stores,
~ Michael Jackson, Moonwalk
She [Miss Rose Fine] taught me the wonderful world of books and reading and I wouldn’t be the same person if it wasn’t for her.
~ Michael Jackson
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
~ Michael Jackson
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MJ: “I watch cartoons. I love cartoons. I play video games. Sometimes I read.”
Q: “You mean you read books?”
MJ: “Yeah. I love to read short stories and everything.”
Q: “Any in particular?”
MJ: “Somerset Maugham.. Whitman. Hemingway. Twain.”
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Javon: That’s how he filled all those hours by himself: books. He’d read anything and everything he could get his hands on. History. Science. Art. There were so many trips to Barnes & Noble. It was almost a weekly thing. He would go into bookstores and drop five thousand dollars like he was buying a pack of gum. At one point, he actually bought a bookstore—I’m talking about an entire bookstore. He paid cash for it. ~Remember the time: protecting Michael Jackson in his final days
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Here is a list with some of Michael’s favorite books:
🔶FICTION
:
🔸Peter Pan, by J.M Barrie
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
🔸To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
🔸The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
🔸Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
The Verger, by Somerset Maugham
🔸The Complete Works of O. Henry
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
🔸The Red Balloon, by Albert Lamorisse
They Cage the Animals at Night, by Jennings Michael Burch
🔸The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
🔸Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔸Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe
🔶SPIRITUAL/BUSINESS/SELF HELP
:
🔸The 48 Laws Of Power, by Robert Greene
🔸
As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen
🔸The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
🔸The Gift of Acabar, by Og Mandino
🔸Leaders Of Men: Types And Principles Of Success, As Illustrated In The Lives And Careers Of Famous Americans Of The Present day, by Henry Woldmar Ruoff
🔸
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
🔸Your Creative Power, by Alex Osborn
🔸Reach Out for a New Life, by Robert Harold Schuller
🔸Hagakure: The Book Of The Samurai, by T. Yamamoto
🔸365 Exercises For The Mind, by Pierre Berloquin
Books by Sri Aurobindo
Books by Kalki Krishnamurthy
🔸Aid To Bible Understanding
🔶BLACK HISTORY
:
🔸Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
🔸The Negro Caravan, by Sterling A. Brown
🔸
Black Heroes of The 20th Century, by Jessie Carney Smith
🔸Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, by James Allen
🔸Black in America, by Eli Reed
🔸King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King Jnr, by Charles Johnson, Bob Adelman
🔸In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens, by Simone Schwarz-Bart
🔸
The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present, by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary MacAustin
🔸Brown Sugar: Over 80 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars
Before the Mayflower, by Lerone Bennet Jr
🔸
How To Eat To Live by Elijah Muhammad
The White Problem in America, by JET magazine authors
🔸Reflections in Black, by Deborah Willis
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality? by Cheikh Anta Diop (1989)
🔸
Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People, by James Haskins (1990)
The Hotel Book: Great Escapes Africa
🔶POETRY:
🔸The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
🔸Robert Burns poems - “Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever”, “Tom O’Shanter”
Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore
Sufi
🔸Poetry
Thoughts of Love: A Collection of Poems on Love, by Susan Polis Schutz
🔸The Children’s Hour, by Henry Wadsworth
🔸Longfellow
The Tyger, by William Blake
🔸The Bridge of Sighs, by Thomas Hood
🔶BIOGRAPHIES ON ICONS:
🔸Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg
🔸Lincoln’s Devotional, by Carl Sandburg
🔸James Dean: An American Icon, by David Loehr
🔸My Life in Pictures, by Charlie Chaplin
🔸Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries, by Geoffery Giuliano
🔸The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, by Alan Aldridge
🔸Glass Onion: The Beatles In Their Own Words, by Geoffrey Giuliano
🔸The Lost Lennon Interviews, by Giuliano
🔸Things We Said Today: Conversations with the Beatles, by Geoffrey Giuliano
🔸Elvis Day By Day, by Peter Guralnick
🔸The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road
🔸Bruce Lee: The Celebrated life of the Golden Dragon, by John Little
🔸
Elia Kazan: A Life, by Elia Kazan
🔸Songs My Mother Taught Me, by Marlon Brando
🔸Steps In Time, by Fred Astaire
🔸My Autobiography, by Charlie Chaplin
🔸Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg
🔸
Kindly Leave the Stage: Story of Variety, by Roger Wilmut
🔸Duse: A Biography, by William Weaver
🔸The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences, by Sir Frederick Treves
🔸The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of Over a Dozen Divine Divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin & Diana Ross to Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston & Janet Jackson
🔶HISTORY:
🔸White Nights: The Story Of A Prisoner In Russia, by Menachem Begin
🔸The Rest Of Us: The Rise Of America’s Eastern European Jews, by Stephen Birmingham
🔶MUSIC:
🔸Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers, by Sheldon Harris
🔸The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock: Expanded and Updated Edition, by Colin Larkin
🔸Stravinsky In The Theater, by Minna Lederman
🔸Recording Studio Design, by Phillip Newell
🔶DISNEY:
🔸The Art Of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse To The Magic Kingdoms
🔸Walt Disney’s Treasury of Children’s Classics
🔸Mickey Mouse by Pierre Lambert
🔸The Quotable Walt Disney
🔸
Discover Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney
🔸
Disney’s World: A Biography, by Leonard Moslev
🔸Walt Disney: An American Original
🔸Walt Disney: Famous Quotes
🔸Of Mice And Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin
🔸The Updated Official Encyclopedia: Disney A to Z
🔶ABOUT MOVIES:
🔸
The Complete Films of Cecil B. Demille, By Gene Ringgold
🔸A Pictorial History of Horror Movies, by Denis Gifford
🔸Acting Class, by Milton Katselas
🔸MGM’s Greatest Musicals, by Hugh Fordin
🔸70 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards by Robert A. Osborne
🔶COSTUME:
🔸
Costumes By Karinska, by Toni Bentley
🔸Stage Costume Advice
🔸
Love of a Glove, by CC Collins 1945
🔸Scenic design
🔸Costume Cavalcade
🔸The History Of Costume
🔶NATURE AND ANIMALS:
🔸
Animal Language, by Michael Bright
🔶PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART:
🔸Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor Paperback, by Lewis Hine
🔸Lewis W. Hine: The Empire State Building by Lewis Hine
🔸Planet Vegas : A Portrait of Las Vegas by 20 of the World’s Leading Photographers: Rick Browne, James Marshall
🔸Hurrell Hollywood: Photographs 1928-1990
The Art Book, by Phaidon
🔸Going East: Two Decades of Asian Photography, by Max Pam
🔸Skinhead (1982), by Nick Knight
🔸The Art of WALL.E, by Tim Hauser
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