“It’s hard to keep up with my book reading with so many versions of ‘Law & Order’ to get through, but when I do, I mostly like to read non-fiction stuff,” says Sarah Silverman. If that’s true, it’s a wonder the Emmy-winning comedian found the time to write “The Bedwetter,” her hilarious, often moving memoir, memorably subtitled “Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee.”
As she tells The Post’s Barbara Hoffman, she’s picky about what she reads, preferring “not straight text-bookish non-fiction, but the kind written by dreamers.” She’s also a huge e.e. cummings fan. Here are a few of her favorite books — “starting, hypocritically,” she notes, “with a work of fiction.”
Still Life With Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins
The most romantic book I’ve ever read. A book for cynics and dreamers and people who are a little of both.
Memory of Fire: Faces and Masks
by Eduardo Galeano
This is the second book in a trilogy. It’s this far-out book that tells the history of America with poetic license and assumptions based on factual history and extrapolating beyond it with current knowledge, a modern understanding of the human experience and poetry. In one section Galeano talks about Jane Franklin, Ben Franklin’s brightest sister and closest intellectual match. He speculates [about] his freedoms as a man and her burdens and lack of choices as a woman.
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
This book changed my life forever. Perspective being everything in life, “Ways of Seeing” is technically about how to look at art, but truly about how we look at everything — how what we perceive has everything to do with our personal life experience and also the context of when, in history, we’re seeing it.
Honey and Junk
by Dana Goodyear
Dana is a modern-day living, breathing poet. I think we tend to scoff at poets that are alive because we can’t hold them up to some mystical standard . . . But her poetry transcends, for me, any lack of respect for the living. It’s beautiful and complex and personal.



