Night-table Reading

Carlos Santana (musician): Messengers of Light, by Terry Lynn Taylor (H.J. Kramer). "The message sustains me on the road and at home. I love how Terry and the angels encourage us to stay in our hearts."

Eileen Ford (co-founder, modeling agency): Acquired Tastes, by Peter Mayle (Bantam). "I enjoyed his other two so enormously, and this new one is just marvelous."

Maeve Binchy (novelist): The Firm, by John Grisham (Doubleday). "I sort of thought that the hero would win, but page after nerve-jangling page I wasn't sure."

Matt Groening (cartoonist): Et Tu, Babe, by Mark Leyner (Harmony). "It's really funny— a very hip nonstop sci-fi wisenheimer combo platter of a novel."