The Alice Hoffman, author of “The Museum of Extraordinary Things” found a copy of “The Catcher in the Rye” on her mother’s bookshelf........... “I hadn’t known that a book could speak so directly to a reader.”

What books are currently on your night stand? 

Currently on Alice's Bookshelf.............

“Time and Again,” by Jack Finney, which I missed in the ’70s and just discovered — I am a huge fan of all time travel. “Inside the Dream Palace,” by Sherill Tippins, the history of the Chelsea Hotel, since I’m a Chelsea girl. “The Death of Bees,” by Lisa O’Donnell, a dark, fierce first novel that is a page-turner and a fairy tale turned inside out.