Subway Reads

On Sunday, in a post-tequila state, I turned on NPR just in time for Jonathan Schwartz's The Sunday Show. His gentle voice talked my brain out of hangover with soothing overtones and audible breaths. And he kept repeating "Today is the first fall day... pause ... pause ... pause ..." It's kind of an odd sentence to repeat ... pause ... pause .... and to give such especial gravitas. And yet, thinking about this week on the train, it seemed as though everywhere you turned someone had their nose in a book. The perfect crisp and cold week to dig into that stack on the bedside table. And I wonder if it was the first fall week.

Below, this week's top five:

Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk

Margarettown: A Novel
by Gabrielle Zevin

Leslie: A Novel
by Omar Tyree

The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West
by Niall Ferguson