Here are a few of the books I've enjoyed lately.

Novels

Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Model Home, Eric Puchner
After the Workshop, John McNally
Past Imperfect, Julian Fellowes
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
The Financial Lives of the Poets, Jess Walter
How I Became a Famous Novelist, Steve Hely
This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper

Nonfiction

Cheever: A Life, Blake Bailey
Mrs. Astor Regrets, Meryl Gordon
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain De Botton
Rapt, Winifred Gallagher
The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose
It's Not That I'm Bitter, Regina Barrecca
The Madoff Chronicles, Brian Ross
The Meaning of Sunglasses, Hadley Freeman
The Narcissism Epidemic, Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell
Columbine, Dave Cullen