As a lifelong bookworm with broad tastes, I often stumble across new treasures. Below is a partial list of my favorite recent reads, as well as some past favorites that happily haunt me to this day.
Khaled Hosseini:
Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Gabriella Garcia Marquez
(Especially in Spanish)
Love in the times of Cholera
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Of Love and Other Demons
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Arundhati Roy
God of Small Things
Kathleen McGowan
The Book of Love
Meryvn Peake
The Gormengast Novels
Moore and Gibbons
The Watchmen
A.R. Ammons
Garbage
Collected Poems 1951-1971
Pablo Neruda
Poems
Emily Dickinson
Poems and letters
Rumi
Poems
Robin Hobb
Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Tawny Man Trilogy
Roger Zalazny
The Amber Chronicles
C.J. Cherryh
Cyteen Trilogy
And classics:
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Homer
Jane Austin
Charlotte Bronte
Ernest Hemmingway
Ayn Rand
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Louisa May Alcott
Virginia Woolf
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Agatha Christie
Truman Capote
Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth Bronte
J.R.R. Tolkein
and many others
Sharon Begley
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
Michael Pollan
Omnivore's Dilemma
Fareed Zakaria
Post-Amercan World
The Future of Freedom
Greg Mortenson
Three cups of Tea
Stones into Schools
Temple Grandin
Thinking in Pictures
Brian Wansink
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Hal Edward Runkel
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
Chip and Dan Heath
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Six Easy Pieces
Six Not So Easy Pieces
Gary Provost
Make Your Words Work
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
