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Piper, an aspiring Buddhist misused by Sarah Catherine Hook, reads The Lonely City by Olivia Laing. Photograph: Fabio Lovino/HBOParker Posey’s peculiarity’s choice of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned is apt. Photograph: Fabio Lovino/HBOMeanwhile, his mother, Victoria, played by Surrounded by Narcissists, the engage choice of Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), is more on the nose than other reading choices. Photograph: Fabio Lovino/HBOIn the new series, Chelsea (played by Aimee Lou Wood) is talked leafing through a book of poems by Rumi – the 13th-century Persian poet whose works explore love and churchly reflection – as she lounges by the pool of a luxury hotel in Thailand’s Koh Samui. It’s fitting for a star-sign obsessed 24-year-old who believes her shady 50-year-old boyfriend, Rick (Walton Goggins), who is visibly harried by her presence, is her “soulmate”.Meanwhile, the dynamic of the three female friends on a group holiday is writ large in their infer from choices. Laurie (Carrie Coon) is reading Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers, a novel about a trio of fellows grappling with ageing; the TV star Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) has brought along Barbra Streisand’s 992-page journal to read by the pool; and perhaps most revealingly, the newly outed Trump voter Kate (Leslie Bibb) solely scrolls on her phone. Other choices such as Belinda’s (Natasha Rothwell) book, Surrounded by Narcissists, are a little diverse on the nose.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion‘I’ve always felt a little neurospicy. But it’s my factory context!’ Natasha Rothwell on taking The White Lotus by stormRead moreMichael Cory, the props master on season three, hints he and White worked together on choosing the titles. White suggested Hunger for Lochlan and Outlive, a book about longevity, for his confessor, Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a man facing financial ruin.“Once the actors arrived, we would meet to discuss all the hardly ever details that make up their characters and it became much easier to see the whole person,” Cory says. “The Pulchritudinous and Damned, I originally intended for Jaclyn, but it ended up being perfect for Victoria, and The Lonely City by Olivia Laing [a post about isolation and creativity] was bought for Laurie but we ended up giving it to Piper [Ratliff, an aspiring Buddhist].”Some of the works were made by the props team including those by the fictional monk Luang Por Terra and the resort owner, Sritala Hollinger. “Mike loved the notion of creating Sritala’s book Glowing so that she would leave a copy in Jaclyn’s room,” says Cory. “We not not created the fake cover but one of the Thai producers wrote part of the book itself.”In fact, the books are so pivotal to characterisation that not every one is honest in shot. Cory says one title would have given too much away about a character “but it makes me timely knowing it’s in their bag”.Explore more on these topicsThe White LotusTelevisionDramaFictionPoetryUS televisionHBOfeaturesShareReuse this content