I will keep it to only my favourite books.
fiction
- Love Story by Erich Segal
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (every single one)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (up to the So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
- Shōgun by James Clavell
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Inferno by Dante
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
non-fiction
- Twelve Years a Slave by David Wilson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore