BY JULIE WIATT

Lucy Samuel : “Anything by Anne Lamott. Right nowI'm reading Traveling Mercies. She's irreverent, while also being a genius, really creative.”

Cheryl Brand: “Pride and Pejudice, because I just re-read it for the third time. The descriptions of social interactions are timeless. But I love to read so much that if you asked me a different day, it would be a different choice.”

Joanne Wu: “You’re going to laugh; it’s a comic book. But it’s a serious one, called Sand Man, by Neil Gaiman. It’s very metaphysical and metaphorical. The “hero” isn’t a regular super hero, he’s a concept. God, it’s a great book.”
Brian Brown: “Frankenstein. It’s an interesting development of the need for caution in one’s ambitions.”

Mark Elliott: “I can’t answer that . . . OK, here’s one: Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger. It’s the story of a young New York boy’s coming of age in World War II. Why? Because it’s got baseball, love, war – what more could you ask for? I laughed. I cried.”

Cassie Chew: “Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I’ve read it four or five times. The book is about a young man from the South who comes north and is going through a series of tests to find his identity. I guess it’s a metaphor for my own life.

Dominic D’Eustachio: “It always changes because I’m always reading, but right now it’s Cast of Shadows, because it was really creepy and had a really unexpected ending. It’s about genetics and fate.

Leon Seltzer: “Every time the favorite changes.”

Eti Seltzer: “I know, it’s Ratha, Diary of a Woman’s Search, by Swami Sivananda Radha. It’s a quest for a spiritual life, by the first Western woman, in the 50s, to become a swami.

Leon: “This is it – this book brought us to a new path.”