# ‘Boy Meets World’ alum Rider Strong shares his six favorite books

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/boy-meets-world-alum-rider-strong-shares-his-six-favorite-books/
- Published: 2026-11-10T15:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T17:28:08+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://pagesix.com/2026/11/10/lifestyle/boy-meets-world-alum-rider-strong-shares-his-six-favorite-books/
- Topics: Business, Markets, World

## Key points

- Rider Strong named six books he recommends.
- His choices span westerns, literary fiction and war writing.
- His new book revisits the making of “Boy Meets World”.

## Summary

Actor Rider Strong, known for “Boy Meets World”, has shared six of his favourite books, describing reading as an enduring source of both joy and frustration. His recommendations accompany the release of “Book Meets World”, a behind-the-scenes history of the 1990s sitcom co-written with former co-stars Will Friedle and Danielle Fishel, and journalist Emily Longeretta.

Strong’s picks range across fiction and genres, including a lesser-known western by E. L. Doctorow, a novel by Toni Morrison, a Vietnam War story, and works by William Gaddis, Knut Hamsun and Richard Hughes. He says his interest in Vietnam War writing is shaped partly by his father’s service, and describes Hughes’s pirate-ship adventure as a dark, unconventional story that blends elements of “Huck Finn”, “Peter Pan” and “Lord of the Flies”.

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