This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, Ex-Libris by Anne Fadiman, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon, World War Z by Max Brooks, anything by Jhumpa Lahiri, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, anything by Geraldine Brooks, and – of course – A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond.