READING NOW:
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Age of Greed, Jeff Madrick
What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost King of France, Deborah Cadbury
Yoga Mala, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
Just Kids, Patti Smith
Life, Keith Richards
Lightning People, Christopher Bollen
The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman
Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
An Object Of Beauty, Steve Martin
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Open: An Autobiography, Andre Agassi
The Submission, Amy Waldman
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman
Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Oscar Hijuelos
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel, Gary Shteyngart
The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
Snobs, Julian Fellowes
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
Mary’s World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston, Richard N. Côté
My Sister My Love, Joyce Carol Oates
The Art of the Commonplace: the Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, Wendell Berry and Norman Wirzba
Diary of the Cuban Revolution, Carlos Franqui
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
You Think That’s Bad: Stories, Jim Shepard
A Voyage for Madmen, Peter Nichols
Carver: Collected Stories, Raymond Carver
Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Steig Larsson
History of a Pleasure Seeker, Richard Mason
Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion and Purpose, Tony Hsieh
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed, Judy Pasternak
Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography, Rob Lowe
The Allure of Chanel, Paul Morand
Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, Truman Capote
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain, Roger Deakin
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese



BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE:
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life, Deepak Chopra
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Narciso Rodriguez, Betsy Berne
Act One, Moss Hart
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, Justine Picardie
Rotten Ralph, Jack Gantos
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Mo Willems
The Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years, Thomas Mann
Gruau, Rene Gruau
Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch
Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Life Studies for the Union Dead, Robert Lowell
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, Christopher Buckley
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza & Calzone, Alice Waters
Edie: An American Biography, Jean Stein and George Plimpton
The Image, Daniel Boorstin
Dubliners, James Joyce
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Capote: A Biography, Gerald Clarke
Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!, Dr. Suess
Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger



BOOKS TO GIVE AS GIFTS:
Empire of Space, Todd Eberle
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Billy Baldwin Decorates, Billy Baldwin
Living By Design, John Stefanidis
Isabel Toledo, Valerie Steele
Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim
Slim Aarons: Once Upon A Time, Slim Aarons
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut, Jill Kargman
American Freak Show, Willie Geist
Loaded!</em>, Willie Geist
Walter Albini and His Times, Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Diana Vreeland, Eleanor Dwight
The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970’s Paris, Alicia Drake
Jungle Fever, Jean-Paul Goude
Country, Jasper Conran
The Fear, Peter Godwin
Hugging the Shore, John Updike
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
The Hunger: A Memoir of an Accidental Chef, John DeLucie
Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher
Ghost Light, Frank Rich
A World on Fire, Amanda Foreman
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Alice B. Toklas
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Fraud, David Rakoff
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Albertus Seba
My First Loves, Ivan Klima
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
An Eye For Design, Allegra Hicks
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
D.V., Diana Vreeland
The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal, Rob Riemen
Poolside With Slim Aarons, Slim Aarons
All the Clothes of a Woman, Hans-Peter Feldmann
Model Home, Eric Puchner
In a Perfect World, Laura Kasischke
The Riders, Tim Winton