Responding to the kind invitation of the incomparable John Tabin, I answer the following: 

1. One book that changed your life?
There are so many, but I’ll go with the Hebrew dictionary I sold the girl I eventually ended up marrying while I was a clerk at a bookstore and she was off to live on a kibbutz in Israel. What might not have been without that first commerce brokered conversation? Or if that one isn’t applicable since I didn’t actually read it, I’d say maybe Tony Horwitz’ Confederates in the Attic? It was the first bit of “literary journalism” I read, to my best recollection. I was still doing factory work, and it got me to thinking a writer’s life might be fun, even if I never thought I’d lead one. (I know someone out there is reading this now saying, “Dude…you’re not leading one now.”)
2. One book that you have read more than once?
I read many novels I find exceptional more than once, but for the purposes of this list I’ll cop to reading Elizabeth McCracken’s Niagara Falls All Over Again twice the week it came out. McCracken writes very pop fiction type stuff, but her ideas are so beautiful and the prose flows so well, I find the worlds she weaves very pleasant ones to return to. Incidentally, I would suggest both her short story collection, Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry? and The Giant’s House—an introverted librarian falls in love with the boy destined to become the tallest man in the world—before Niagara. 
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Tabin already has the best answer to this one, but I’ll go with the massive Penguin Collected Stories of William Faulkner. With more than 40 stories, it’s a lot of bang for your buck and most Faulkner bulbs don’t even start to really blossom in your mind until the third or fourth read.
4. One book that made you cry?
I’m not a big crier, but before I went to Iraq I bought an old used guidebook with phrases and customs for interacting with the people. More than once I was thumbing through it on some bombed out street, reading about some historic site or where to eat or what to say to show you come in friendship and…well, the chaotic spiral that society is in is just heartrending. Really and truly.
5. One book that made you laugh?
There are several Dave Barry and P.J. O’Rourke tomes on the tip of my tongue, but I’ll go with Jon Ronson’s Them–a great, hilarious and brave adventure story about one of my favorite topics—paranoia.  
6. One book you wish had been written?
How about The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People?
7. One book you wish had never been written?
I’m going to cheat and say, Albert Mudrian’s Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, mostly because it’s a fabulous book I wish I’d written about one of my niche interests.
8. One book you are reading currently?
I try to balance fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Right now, in addition to research materials for my Phillips project, I’m reading Cormac McCarthy’s latest, The Road and David Foster Wallace’s truly brilliant (if long-winded) collection of essays, Consider the Lobster.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
The second volume of Ian Kershaw’s Hitler biography. The first volume was really just splendid, but had me tied down for quite a bit longer than I expected. My appetite for volume two has been whetted, yet I’m paradoxically a little ginger about getting back in the ring with the rest of the nightstand overflowing. 
10. Pass it on
This is really tough but I’ll say Todd A, Kelly Jane Torrance and Paul Sands.