| Most recommended: - Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others. - Lawrence Weschler - Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. A quality biography of Robert Irwin based on interviews over decades, and helps you learn to appreciate minimalist art to boot. - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions - Burton G. Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah. Saw myself in several of these characters - Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek --- Also good: - Jack London - John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs. Illustrates all of the interesting ways in which a person is tempted to drink: when someone else buys you one, when it's cold outside, ... - Danny Bowien - The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook. Lots of stories between the recipes. - David Byrne - How Music Works - Meg Jay - The Defining Decade - Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast - Magdalena Droste - Bauhaus 1919-1933 - Arimasa Osawa - Shinjuku Shark - Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Haruki Murakami - The Strange Library. A fifteen minute read. - Tim Ferriss - The Four-Hour Workweek. Good tactics for saving time; bad business advice. - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle - John Berger - Ways of Seeing |