For the prose
- Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- West with the Night by Beryl Markham
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
For the humor
- The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Sirens of Titan, and Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
For the story
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Hard to Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky.
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Carrie by Stephen King
- ‘Salem’s lot Stephen King
For the history
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
- The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel
For business, management, and industry
I have a dedicated page.
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