What’s On Harry Styles’ Reading List? Marie Kondo, Apparently
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It’s been a wild week for singer/songwriter Harry Styles, and he must be looking to find some joy at home.
Styles co-chaired the Met Gala alongside Lady Gaga and Serena Williams on Monday, May 6, and he apparently took his duties very seriously. Evenas far back as October, he was reading up on Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”熟悉今年的主题。但现在that the whirlwind event is over, what’s an international pop star to do? Declutter, apparently. (Maybe it’ll help him sellthat house he can’t seem to get off his hands.)
Styles stuck around New York City after the gala for some sightseeing and shopping, and fans spotted him at the Strand Book Store on the Thursday after the event, prompting everyone on Earth to ask: What exactly is he reading?
The Strand finally answered that question on their Instagram. Kind of. While they “can’t confirm or deny,” they were the first source to tip fans off to what he might have purchased that afternoon in NYC: “Onlookers say they saw Harry bring multiple copies of these two books to the registers: Joan Didion’sThe Year of Magical Thinkingand Marie Kondo’sThe Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.”
Joan Didion and Marie Kondo? I don’t think I’ve been this delighted by Harry Styles since he woreplants-and-bookshelves patterned trousersto my concert in Atlanta.
Multiple copies seem to defeat the purpose of decluttering—especially when you consider how purging your book collection is thesecond of five major decluttering categoriesfrom Kondo’s tome. But fans are guessing that he’s gifting the extra copies to friends. (Maybe “giving gifts” is hislove language.)
The other great news about the Strand’s reveal is that I finally have enough titles to justify starting that Harry-Styles-approved book club I’ve been thinking about. In addition to “Notes on Camp” and these copies of Didion and Kondo, he was previously spotted carrying “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakamiin Londonearlier this year. And when heinterviewed actor Timothée Chalamet for i-D in November样式显示,什么书他会选择意图d for the rest of his life:
“My book would be… I have two. It would either be Haruki Murakami’sNorwegian Woodor Rob Sheffield’sLove Is a Mixtape,” Styles said. “Which I would suggest you read if you haven’t read it already. It’s really beautiful.”