Olivia Laingâs Reading Piles Are Far From Organized Credit...Jillian Tamaki April 29, 2021 âThere are something like 15,000 books in our house,â says the author of âEverybodyâ and other books, âincluding pretty much every poetry pamphlet published in the 20th century. Itâs a problem.â What books are on your night stand? Seed catalogs, and a book that says on the cover âBear I love you, bite my head offâ (on closer inspection itâs called âBear,â by Marian Engel). Whatâs the last great book you read? âIn the Cut,â by Susanna Moore. Vicious, idiosyncratic, stylish, erotic, frightening. Itâs a noirish feminist thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder. Up there with the great New York novels.