Reading List

The following is a list of books John Ruskin recommends to any actor or human being looking to become more authentic and stay inspired.

• The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse, Biography of Eleonora Duse, by Eva Le Gallienne

• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Stephen Mitchell

• Sanford Meisner on Acting By Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell.

• Acting: The First Six Lessons by Richard Bolesklavsky.

• The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties by Harold Clurman.

• The Captain’s Verses by Pablo Neruda.

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz.

• An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones and William Wilson.

• Open Secret: Versions of Rumi, Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks.

• The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran.

• Tao Te Ching, by Lao-tzu, translated with foreword and notes by Stephen Mitchell.

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche.

• Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom.

• The Holy Man by Susan Trott.