For the Love of Books!

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

1. The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
2. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
3. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
4. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino.
5. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton.
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
8. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
9. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.
10. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
11. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.
12. N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto.
13. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa.
14. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.
15. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
16. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.
17. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
18. Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
19. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.
20. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa.

Classics

1. 1984 by George Orwell.
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
3. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
5. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
6. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
8. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
10. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
11. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louise Stevenson.
12. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
13. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
14. The Trial by Franz Kafka.
15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
16. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
17. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
18. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
19. Sanshiro by Soseki Natsume.
20. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Canon Doyle.

NON-FICTION

Physics/Mathematics

1. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
2. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
3. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
4. The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin.
5. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin.
6. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin.
7. Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose.
8. Chaos by James Gleick.
9. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
10. The Infinite Book by John D Barrow.
11. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli.
12. A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss.
13. Quantum: A Guide For the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili.

Biology/Nature

1. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.
2. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
3. Feathers by Thor Hanson.
4. The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann.
5. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.
6. Indica by Pranay Lal.
7. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
8. In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates.
9. The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart.
10. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
11. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
12. Genome by Matt Ridley.

Miscellaneous (Non-Fiction)

1. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
2. Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing.
3. The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller.
4. In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World by Ruth Sidransky.
5. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
6. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
7. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.
8. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.
9. Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh.
10. Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky.
11. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara.
12. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
13. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
14. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
15. The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano.
16. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris.
17. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.
18. In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared by Christopher Robbins.
19. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom.
20. 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!