Manhattan-bound L-train books

An unusual number of print books on the subway this morning.

9:15-9:40 AM, Wednesday, November 19, Dekalb to 1st Ave.: 

The Importance of Being Iceland by Eileen Myles (a girl wearing blue eyeliner and wavy hair who looked around a lot)

A slim book by Georg Trakl (tall guy in a leather jacket), didn’t catch the title

The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor, looked like a review copy, (unremarkable woman)

A book in Polish, looked like a novel (blond guy in a buzz cut)

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (unremarkable woman)

Books being read on the Manhattan-bound L train

…this morning. If everyone gets a Kindle (shudder), how will I be able to conduct random samplings of the Brooklyn reading public?

In the order seen:

Inventing Reality: Physics As Language

Dance Dance Dance – Murakami

The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan

Fifty Shades of Grey