BOOKS & AUTHORS MENTIONED IN HBO's HIT SHOW THE SOPRANOS

Because The Sopranos is all about Bling, Bang and Books!

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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Carmela's bedtime read.

2. The Second Coming by W.B Yeats

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AJ reads some deep poetry. This episode's name was after the poem for all the right reasons.

3. Time for some Yeats. Again!

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It was AJ's English class that introduced him to Yeats.

4. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Oscar Fact: Renée Zellweger won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Role for Cold Mountain's film adaptation.

5. Edgar Allan Poe reference

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Meadow Soprano handing over Poe assignment she wrote for Jackie Jr...things people do in love.

6. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

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A heated discussion took place over the homosexual theme in Melville's novella. Well, literature is all about subjectivity.

7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Book Recommendation time! Wegler recommended Carmela Madame Bovary which turns out to be a foreshadow in the show.

8. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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From bedroom read to bathroom seat/read, Carmela found this book in Wegler's bathroom during their short-lived affair.

9. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

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The subtitle of the book is "Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America." Nothing like a gory true crime fiction before a good night sleep for Jim Witowski.

10. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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This book is a feminist twist to Arthurian legends so no wonder Carmela is reading it.

11. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

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AJ found his comfortable reading position. What's yours?

12. The World Is Too Much with Us by Wordsworth

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Don't waste the power and sign up for the English Romanticism class next semester.

13. Rebel in Chief by Fred Barnes

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Carmela reading Bush's biography. Go figure.

14. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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Still on page 1? It's not going to be a quick read.

15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Reaction from a mother who found out that her son has plagiarized the English essay. AJ found it easier to copy from Cliff Notes only if the assignment was on Lord of the Rings.

16. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

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AJ having a hard time with poetry. To be fair the poem's central theme 'death' is not easy to tackle for a high school kid.

17. Existentialists Alert!

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Remember the first time you read Camus? Soon you move to Sartre, Nietzsche, Husserl and Kierkegaard. This scene mentions all these philosophers and shows AJ's early existential dilemma.

18. Remembrance Of Things Past by Marcel Proust

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Therapy is all about going back to the beginning so it's obvious that Dr. Melfi would mention Proust's celebrated novel about past and its connection with the present.

19. The Prince by Machiavelli & The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Both these books are about manipulation, deceit, strategy and fortune among other things which is enough to hold the interest of mob mogul, Tony Soprano. In his own words, "Sun Tzu's Art of War is much better about strategy."

So go read a book.