Subway Page-Turners

These are the dog-eared paperbacks that have lived in my backpack, my coat pocket, and once under a barstool at Rudy’s. Nothing here is homework — these are the books that can muscle through a crowded A train at rush hour, keep you company on a long ride from Inwood to Coney, and still have enough juice left to talk about over that last, ill-advised beer. If you’re the kind of person who misses your stop because a paragraph hits just right, yeah, this list is basically a danger to your punctuality.