Recommended Books

Books are one of humanity’s greatest creations. Perhaps Carl Sagan said it best:

What an astonishing thing a book is. One glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs, books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Recommended Fiction:

• 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
• Akira, By Katsuhiro Otomo
• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by Ron Hansen
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
• Killing Commentadore, Haruki Murakami
• The Long Ships, by Frans G. Bengtsson
• Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
• No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
• The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Recommended Non-Fiction:

• A History of the Crusades, by Steven Runciman
• A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre
• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
• The Elements of Style, by William Strunk & E.B. White
• Enemy of All Mankind, by Steven Johnson
• Endurance, by Alfred Lansing
• Homicide, by David Simon
• In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
• Into the Woods, by John Yorke
• The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright
• Make Something Wonderful, by Steve Jobs
• On Grand Strategy, by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
• Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Paul Cronin
• Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Winter Fortress, by Neal Bascomb