‘Twice’ author Mitch Albom shares his favorite books

Ever wonder what your favorite celebrities are reading — whether it’s a timeless classic or the buzzy bestseller they can’t put down? Welcome to Page-Turners, where stars reveal the books that keep them hooked, inspired and up all night. Warning: your TBR pile is about to get a lot longer.

Mitch Albom loves reading books that can help inspire his own writing.

“As I writer, I read for pleasure, but I also read to learn how others are doing it, to witness their art, to be inspired,” the “Tuesdays with Morrie” author tells Page Six, adding, “the books I love most are ones where the writing stays with me, with the wordcraft leaves me smiling.”

Albom’s newest book, “Twice” — which came out Tuesday — follows a man named Alfie who learns as a child he has the magical ability to do everything in his life twice. The caveat is that he has to live with the consequences of the second outcome and it doesn’t work on love.

“At a very critical moment in his life, he has to make a very consequential choice about his love life and second chances,” Albom teases.

Most of Alfie’s embarrassments in the book were pulled directly from Albom’s real life, including an awkward tale in his tweens at a make-out party.

“The slicker stuff that he does later was fiction,” the author tells us.

Despite his previous works having themes of love within them, “Twice” is Albom’s first foray into romance as a central plot and he hopes to bring a “fresh” story to the genre.

“I try to write about things that I think other people are interested in,” he explains, “and I know pretty much everybody is interested in being loved or loving somebody. And so I thought, now’s a good time for that.”

See below for Albom’s six must-read book recommendations.

“A deeply personal confessional from an elderly pastor father to his young son, this book is so full of beautiful phrases it begs to read aloud. The themes, like faith, family and secrets, resonate like a clanged bell. So does the writing.”

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“A coming-of-age story that is written simply but is anything but simple. Short. To the point. Yet so moving. You almost want to flip the book over and shake it when you finish to see where the all that emotional punch comes from.”

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“I could pick a number of his books, but this, to me, was Wolfe at his finest. His punchy, frantic, sometimes lyrical use of words and sentence structure can make you forget that this is a true account of the early space program and the bravado of the men who shaped it.”

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“Someone once said Didion’s writing is so tight ‘it cuts the flesh.’ Her essays in this book stand the test of time as the finest meshing of indefatigable reporting and writing style.”

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“This book makes me smile, choke up, and sometimes actually wince with the main character’s pain. But it’s hard to find many books that better describe the agony, elation, and piercing loss that true love brings.”

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“Robert Redford’s recent death reminded me of what a beautiful film he made of this stunningly beautiful book, Maclean’s first, published when he was 73 years old. So many memorable sentences, and such a quiet sense of joy and heartbreak. I never tire of reading it.”

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