Rob Sheffield's 6 favorite books

What authors keep Sheffield, a Rolling Stone columnist and best-selling memoirist, turning pages? Everyone from Hunter S. Thompson to Oscar Wilde

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (Vintage, $14). I’m devoting this list to the books currently piled on my bathroom floor. Some of them haven’t seen a proper shelf in months, because I just keep reading them. This one never goes near the bookcase.

How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford (Scholastic, $18). Two lonely teens meet, try to connect, keep failing. (Not that I can relate or anything.) I bought this novel last year at Grand Central Station because I loved the title and needed something for the train. All the way to Poughkeepsie, I kept thinking, Stop it. You can’t cry here. But I just couldn’t stop reading it. Still can’t.

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