How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom. The book has flashes of engagement, moments of humor and occasional bursts into invective.
Bloom is charming and succinct.
How They Got There by David Brooks. The word Bobos is a combination of bohemian and bourgeois. It's their effort to try and keep the spiritual ethic of their own rebellion alive. It's a marvelous thing mainly descriptive rather than polemic. Brooks' eye is precise, his vocabulary first rate, his ability to describe extended sequences is as good a comedy as I have read in a long time.