Considering that I have received a few requests for book recommendations, I am writing this list of books that I have grown to love. For the sake of convenience, I am sorting them into groups based on genre. I sincerely hope you enjoy these books as much as I did.
Let's get cracking.
FICTION
Contemporary Fiction
- The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino.
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.
- N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto.
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa.
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.
- The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa.
Classics
- 1984 by George Orwell.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louise Stevenson.
- Dracula by Bram Stoker.
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
- The Trial by Franz Kafka.
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
- Sanshiro by Soseki Natsume.
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Canon Doyle.
NON-FICTION
Physics/Mathematics
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
- The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin.
- Time Reborn by Lee Smolin.
- In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin.
- Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose.
- Chaos by James Gleick.
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- The Infinite Book by John D Barrow.
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli.
- A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss.
- Quantum: A Guide For the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili.
Biology/Nature
- The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
- Feathers by Thor Hanson.
- The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann.
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.
- Indica by Pranay Lal.
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
- In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates.
- The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart.
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
- Genome by Matt Ridley.
Miscellaneous (Non-Fiction)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
- Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing.
- The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller.
- In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World by Ruth Sidransky.
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
- Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.
- A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.
- Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh.
- Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky.
- The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
- The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano.
- The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris.
- Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.
- In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared by Christopher Robbins.
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom.
- Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman.
There it is, a selection of my favourites.
If you have any recommendations for me, please leave them in the comments section below!