underground reading

We present to you a photo project called 'The Underground New York Public Library', the heroes of which are fans of 'underground' reading among the passengers of the New York subway.

New York is a city of contrasts, and people of different appearance and social status, but also with different reading tastes, live and side by side with each other. Photographer Urit Ben-Haim spoke about the preferences of ordinary Americans in literature in her project.

After looking through dozens of photographs, you will be surprised, or perhaps not surprised, to find in the hands of New Yorkers the works of some Russian classics: Tolstoy, Nabokov, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky and even Kharms. They are reading!

(Total 45 photos)

1. 'Disappearance of the Elephant', Haruki Murakami

2. 'Pale Flame', Vladimir Nabokov

3. “Pinch Hit,” by Tim Green

4. 'The Master and Margarita', Mikhail Bulgakov

5. 'A Gift from Asher the Lion', Chaim Potok

6. 'Steve Jobs', Walter Isaacson

7. 'The Jungle Book', Rudyard Kipling

8. 'The Left Hand of Darkness', Ursula Le Guin

9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

10. 'The Talented Mr Ripley', Patricia Highsmith

11. 'Doctor is sick', Anthony Burgess

12. 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories', Ernest Hemingway

13. 'Mists of Avalon', Marion Zimmer Bradley

14. 'Source', Ayn Rand

15. 'Talmud'

16. 'The Catcher in the Rye', Jerome D. Salinger

17. 'Castle', Franz Kafka

18. "The Hum and the Shiver", by Alex Bledsoe

19. 'Sharp Objects', Gillian Flynn

20. "Sexing the Cherry", Janet Winterson

21. 'Politics', Aristotle

22. 'Naked Lunch', William Burroughs

23. 'Mary, Mary', James Patterson

24. 'Notes from the Underground', Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

25. 'Julius Caesar', William Shakespeare

26. 'Cases', Daniil Kharms

27. 'In a Secluded Place', Dorothy B. Hughes

28. 'Hallucinations', Oliver Sachs

29. 'And Everything Illuminated', Jonathan Safran Foer

30. 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley

31. 'Even Cowgirls Get Sad Sometimes', Tom Robbins

32. 'The Fallen', Lauren Keith

33. 'Ender's Game', Orson Scott Card

34. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

35. 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Cotton', David Sedaris

36. 'Pounds of dashing in Paris and London', George Orwell

37. 'Don Quixote', Miguel de Cervantes

38. 'Suffocation', Chuck Palahniuk

39. 'The Night Begins', Michael Cunningham

40. 'American', Susan Choi

41. 'Breakfast of Champions', Kurt Vonnegut

42. 'Black Spring', Henry Miller

43. 'Wild Rose', Iris Murdoch

44. 'Nude for you', Sylvia Day

45. 'Atlas Shrugged', Ayn Rand