11. Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin (5/15/2011 - 5/19/2011)
I was surprised by this book -- it wasn't really laugh-out-loud funny, but it was a pleasant read full of small jokes, absurdities, and the occasional chuckle. It's a very simple concept: a man enjoys reading his newspaper in his parked car on the streets of New York. But since parking is such a charged subject in NYC, things quickly get out of hand and become ridiculous -- but not in a bad way. The irrational ways in which people react to small things were perfectly characterized in this story in such a way as to point out how strange we are when confronted with something we don't understand. I especially enjoyed the mayor in this book, who is constantly yelling about "the forces of disorder" and trying to arrest Tepper simply for reading the paper. Not a lengthy read, but an amusing one.
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