On Beauty on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: “With his free hand Howard took a turn-of-the-century edition of Alice in Wonderland off the shelf and brought it with Murdoch to the couch.”
On Beauty on A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: “...Henry Watson Fowler, the author of the Dictionary of Modern English Usage, on whom French had written a colossal, almost painfully detailed biography.”
White Teeth on Fear of Flying: “This is Clara... through which she reads, in a few short months, Greer's Female Eunuch, Jong's Fear of Flying, and The Second Sex.”
White Teeth on The Female Eunuch: “she reads, in a few short months, Greer's Female Eunuch, Jong's Fear of Flying, and The Second Sex, all in a clandestine attempt to rid Clara of her 'false consciousness.'”
White Teeth on The Second Sex: “she reads, in a few short months, Greer's Female Eunuch, Jong's Fear of Flying, and The Second Sex.”
White Teeth on The Catcher in the Rye: “impossibly rare copy of Slick Rick's 'Hey Young World,' The Catcher in the Rye, his guitar... all had been placed on the funeral pyre.”