A non-exhaustive list of books that I've enjoyed
FICTION
- The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- After the Fire by Henning Mankel
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Ratking by Michael Dibdin
- Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
- The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G. B. Edwards
- I Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton
- Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Women by Charles Bukowski
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- 1984 by George Orwell
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
- Colas Breugnon by Romain Rolland
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
NON-FICTION
- Memory: The Key to Consciousness by Richard F. Thompson
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
- We Learn Nothing: Essays by Tim Kreider
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community by Janwillem van de Wetering
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp
- I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
- Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
- The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth(ignore the title - it's a great book)
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
- Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
- Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
- Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
- Ya̦nomamö by Napoleon A. Chagnon
- Money Changes Everything by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
- Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
- Happiness on $10 a day by Heather Wagner
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
- Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski