The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 by Harry Graf Kessler

The Iliad by Homer

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus

Jorge Luis Borges

The Words (Les Mots)
by Jean-Paul Sartre

De L'Allemagne (De l'Allemagne) by Madame de Staël

Béatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

Buddenbrooks aby Thomas Mann

Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann

Michel Houellebecq
(French author)

Edith Sitwell
(British poet)

Break of Day (La naissance du jour​c) by Colette

The Sense of Beauty​​ by George Santayana

Baruch Spinoza
(Dutch philosopher)

Friedrich Nietzsche
(Philosopher)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Friedrich Hölderlin
(German poet)

Else Laskar Schüler

Catherine Pozzi
(French poet)

Anna de Noailles
(French writer)

Rainer Maria Rilke (Poet)

Stéphane Mallarmé (French poet)

Roberto Juarroz
(Argentine poet)

Giacomo Leopardi (Italian philosopher)

Emily Dickinson (American poet)

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Sources

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/09/proust_lagerfeld200509
https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-books/diaporama/karl-lagerfeld-favorite-books/40249

IMAGE SOURCES

https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/23707/Roberto-Juarroz/en/tile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq#/media/File:2008.06.09._Michel_Houellebecq_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_03.jpg (Michel Houellebecq)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Prince_and_Princess_of_Monaco_with_Hermann_B%C3%BChlbecker_and_Karl_Lagerfeld.jpg (cover)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld#/media/File:Karl_Lagerfeld_2014.jpg (Karl Lagerfeld profile photo)