Michael Ian Black's Reading List

"The book details his relationship with the owner of the shop and his eventual purchase of a piano... the book is lovely and it inspired me to buy a used piano."

"Both books are about young men trying to figure out their place in a world that feels alienating and sometimes hostile. They've both got great movement in them, which I think younger readers crave."

"I loved the book."

"Tara Westover's "Educated" is not a parenting book by any stretch of the imagination, but it says so much about raising children, for good and bad. To me, that book is worth a hundred "parenting" books."

"I had a vague idea of Robert Moses' history of road-building in New York but had no idea that he basically created the entire New York parks system and all that it entailed."

"I found it riveting but depressing."

"Now I'm telling everybody to read "City of Girls," by Elizabeth Gilbert, which is just fun and romantic and vibrant."

"I just fell for him hard when I first read the book in my early 20s."