CLASSICS
- The catcher in the rye, by Salinger
- The Invisible Man, by HG Wells
- Jean-Christophe, by Romain Rolland
CHRISTIAN CLASSICS
- The Canterbury Tales
- La Divina Commedia
- Paradise Lost
- Piers Plowman
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
- A Wrinkle in Time
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