- Moby Dick
- Great Expectations
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Anything by Robert Benchley
- Anything by James Thurber, except his late stuff
- Ditto by S.J. Perelman
- “The Young Immigrunts,” by Ring Lardner
- Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis
- Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock
- The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
- Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
- Portable Prairie, by M.J. Andersen
- Skinner’s Drift, by Lisa Fugard
- Anything by David Sedaris
- Anything by Tobias Wolff
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch
- “The Ledge” by Lawrence Sargent Hall
- “The Best of Betty,” by me