If he wants to read with Laura, he should try "The Slave". A great story. He could then call up Gibson and give him a great movie plot. IB Singer was a great story teller. Wrote in Yiddish no less. Won the Nobel Prize on the basis of this novel. I think Saul Bellow translated the book.
If he wants OJT in crowd psychology, he should read the first 150 pages of "Crowds and Power" . Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize in early 80's for this one.
Since they were both written by Jews, he might impress the PTB in Israel. They are also great books. Even this Slavophile can see that.
We all read The Stranger in French and in English, except algore who never went to class. Bush is probably refreshing his memory in an effort to understand the dems who get stranger and stranger every day.