Books

Some favorites.

Nonfiction

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo M. Cipolla

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman

The Machinery of Life, David S. Goodsell

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, Ed Yong

Fiction

In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

About Love, Anton Chekhov

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The Place of Shells, Mai Ishizawa

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

1984, George Orwell

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

Citizen, Claudia Rankine

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

Kusamakura, Natsume Sōseki

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy