It takes place in a bookstore! They mention a lot of books.

• Twice Told Tales
• Things Fall Apart
• The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Brown
• Leaves of Grass
• The House of Mirth
• Billy Budd
• Meditations in an Emergency (Frank O’Hara)
• Lunch Poems (Frank O’Hara)
• Little Women
• Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Invisible Man
• Manhattan Transfer
• Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes
• all those gothic novels Nathaniel reads
• Bleak House
• Lord of the Rings
• Moby Dick
• The Great Gatsby
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• MFK Fisher’s memoir about Provence
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• a Rex Stout
• Tortilla Flat
• Baby and Child Care by Dr. Spock
• Anya Seton books
• Lowell
• Dickinson
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Longfellow
• Whittier
• Valley of the Dolls
• Look Homeward, Angel
• Trout Fishing in America by Richard Bratigan
• du Maurier
• In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross/Carolyn Heilbrun
• The Golden Bowl
• The Bostonians
• Virginia Woolf
• Djuna Barnes
• Gertrude Stein
• Carson McCullers
• Anais Nin
• Mastering the Art of French Cooking
• Agatha Christie paperbacks
• The Red Badge of Courage
• East of Eden
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Howl
• On the Road
• An American Tragedy