Classics

Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Woodlanders)
Charles Dickens (Dombey & Son, Bleak House, Great Expectations)
Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth)
Honoré de Balzac (Old Goriot, The Black Sheep, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions)
Victor Hugo (Notre-Dame de Paris, The Toilers of the Sea)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov, White Nights, Notes from the Underground)
Alexander Grin (The Scarlet Sails, Running on Waves)
Knut Hamsun (Growth of the Soil, Mysteries, Hunger)
Eça de Queirós (The Crime of Father Amaro, The City & the Mountains)
Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
No Name by Wilkie Collins
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Duel by Anton Chekhov
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Modern Classics

Daphne du Maurier (My Cousin Rachel, The Scapegoat)
Albert Camus (The Plague, The Stranger)
Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin, The Gift)
Stefan Zweig (The Post Office Girl, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red, The White Castle, The Black Book)
José Saramago (The Cave, The Double, All the Names)
Thomas Bernhard (Correction, The Lime Works, Concrete)

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

Silence by Shusaku Endō
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō Ōe
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe 
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
El Túnel by Ernesto Sabato
Amulet by Roberto Bolaño

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martin Eden by Jack London
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Edith’s Diary by Patricia Highsmith
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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Science-Fiction

Philip K. Dick (Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

1984 by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Solaris by Stanisław Lem 

Crime/Thriller

Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

Fantasy

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susana Clarke

Play

Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire)

The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov
The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Short Story

Anton Chekhov (Ward No. 6, The House with the Mezzanine, The Black Monk)
Edith Wharton (Xingu, The New York Stories)
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
The Green Lamp by Alexander Grin
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig
Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati
They by Rudyard Kipling
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
The Last Leaf by O. Henry
The Fairy Tales by Hermann Hesse

Non-Fiction

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

The History of Madness by Michel Foucault
Asylums by Erving Goffman
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by
Oliver Sacks

The History by Herodotus
Medieval Civilisation by Jacques Le Goff
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Broken Spears by Miguel León-Portilla
Pianoforte by Dieter Hildebrandt

Shamans, Healers by Holger Kalweit
Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain