This is the Hangover Edition of my occasional round-ups ...

• National Public Radio humbly asks for your vote. (I don't think Justin Cronin's The Passage is a thriller--it's more science fiction than anything else--but I suppose this list proves how wide-open genre really is.)
• This is fun, but I soured when it told me I write like Chuck Palahniuk.
• "I consider calling another hooker but I can't stand the idea of any more small talk." Check out P. William Grimm's "Sunset Over LAX."
• Jeffrey Eugenides is working on his follow-up to Middlesex. And that's all he's giving us.