Night-Table Reading

Anjelica Huston, actress, director: Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (Scribner). "It is a very beautiful Irish memoir."

Mark Birley, restaurateur, entrepreneur: Byzantium, by John Julius Norwich (Knopf). "In case of wakefulness, I always turn to this three-volume history. I find the index particularly helpful."

Jakob Dylan, lead singer of the Wallflowers: The Enchanter, by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage). "I enjoy reading Nabokov, for both his lyrical writing and perverse sense of humor."

Robert DiRomualdo, chairman of Borders Books: When Work Disappears, by William Julius Wilson (Knopf). "It's a very complex, comprehensive treatment of o ne of the most difficult problems of our day—the continued decline of inner cities. "