A Paris travelogue and a slice of Americana help pass the time.

Just the classics, please–the bigger, the better.

True life trumps fiction for the hard-hitting journalist.

A Stephen King recommendation spun into PR gold.

Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
On Writing by Stephen King
English Composition and Grammar by John E. Warriner

Ken Wheaton’s desert island pick appropriates a Czech classic from a friend.

Nothing but her whole library will do.

A. J. Jacobs’ desert island revenge fantasy takes aim at William F. Buckley.

Adultery, nymphet obsession and nervous breakdowns.

Two memoirs, one Bildungsroman, all truth.