It's probably a little irreverent of me to compare, but I think Lisa Simpson is probably almost as iconic (in her own way) as Marilyn Monroe. They do share one important similarity--both being serious readers. Earlier this year there was a book exhibit in my library spotlighting the books Marilyn Monroe had in her personal library. And now Lisa Simpson follows suit. Inspired by The Lisa Simpson Book Club, books appearing on the The Simpsons are currently on display in my library. Lisa is smart and sassy and an insatiable reader. If you catch Lisa reading or other bookish references on the show, viewers are invited to submit them to the Tumblr created in her honor to showcase her exemplary library.
This is one of my personal favorites. And she's only eight! Maybe I shouldn't be afraid of reading Thomas Pynchon after all!
Curious about what Lisa has been reading?:
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
The Adventures of Tin Tin, Hergé
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
The Master of the Senate, Robert Caro
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Babysitter’s Club, Ann M. Martin
The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The poems of Emily Dickinson
The works of Jane Austen
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The poems of Robert Pinsky
The work of Joyce Carol Oates
The work of Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
The work of Tom Wolfe
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
Magazines
Non-Threatening Boys Magazine
UTNE Reader
The New Yorker
Harper’s / Lapham’s Quarterly
The Atlantic Kids’ Edition
The Paris Review
Wired
Junior Skeptic Magazine
The New Republic for Kids
I wonder if you can count yourself as having "made it" when you're famous enough to merit a full length wikipedia entry?