CLASSICS

• The catcher in the rye, by Salinger
• The Invisible Man, by HG Wells
• Jean-Christophe, by Romain Rolland

FICTION

• Chinese Whispers, by Jan Wong
• The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon. Studied it in depth in 1985, OMG, while preparing the Concours d’Entrée à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure. Curious to see what it looks like to me now.
• A book by Dinaw Mengestu, either The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, or How to REad the Air
• The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson 

• Ken Follett’s books:  The Pillars of the earth, World without end, and Fall of Giants, among others! Just heard an excerpt of The Pillars of the Earth on XM Bookradio – definitely want to read this one!
• The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
• All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang
• The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Bnejamin Hale
• The Good Daughters By Joyce Maynard
• Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son, by Sholem Aleichem
• The Vanishing of Katharina Linden By Helen Grant
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adam
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok
• Lunch in Paris, by Elizabeth Bard

NON-FICTION

• The Lost Citiy of Z, by David Grann
• The man who loved books too much, by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• Bill Bryson’s books, all of them!
• Reading Dickens in Lagos, by George Packer
• The good thief, by Hannah Tinti
• Bozo Sapiens: why to err is human, by Michael Kaplan
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf
• Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town, by Susan Hand Shetterley
• Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier
• The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer, by David Herlihy
• The Medieval Traveller by Norbert Ohler
• The Rebbe The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, by Samuel Heilman
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl

HISTORICAL FICTION

• Catherine LeVendeur series, #4 and after, by Sharan Newman
• For the King, by Catherine Delors

SCIENCE FICTION

• Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn

MYSTERY

• The Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva