Everyone on the subway was reading something famous this week. Which would make sense if we’d never done this before, but usually the commuters of New York City display a wider variety of taste. Lots of folks are reading Elizabeth Edwards’ new memoir, Resilience. In these trying times we can probably all use some “reflections on the burdens and gifts of facing life’s adversities,” in spite of what HuffPo has to say. We also saw Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld — and here we must admit that we actually remember when she won a fiction contest in Seventeen magazine, because we were the kind of dorks who actually read the fiction in Seventeen. Which might be why Prep‘s creepily accurate portrayal of high school gave us such intense flashbacks. We spotted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by the truly awesome Haruki Murakami as well as some non-fiction: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc‘s Random Family, and Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven.