The Yale Alumni mag asks a bunch of Yale profs what they’re reading—and the answers are surprisingly normal!

Jonathan Spence is reading Wolf Hall. (Makes sense, if you think about it.) Stephen Carter is reading E.L. Doctorow. (Ditto.)

But…wait: History professor Abbas Amanat is reading “Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings) by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.” Deep. And psychology professor Paul Bloom is reading “Rebecca Goldstein’s 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.” Which actually sounds kind of interesting.

I’m reading the 3rd Stiegg Larsson novel—”The Girl Whose Hair Caught on Fire,” I believe it’s called. And you?