After two harried years on the trail, an endless stream of hotel rooms, fast food bolted on the fly, the same speeches day after day after day, journalists finally had time to curl up with a good book—or several good books. We asked a few campaign reporters what they chose to unwind with:

Candy Crowley (CNN): You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett; In the Woods by Tana French; Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case by Bobby Delaughter

Don Gonyea (NPR): To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne; The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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