General Fiction:
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
19th-century authors – Twain, Dickens, and Austen
20th-century authors – Hemingway
Short stories – Find a collection by O’Henry
History:
Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman (and anything else she wrote)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
Mysteries & Spies:
Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré (and anything else he wrote)
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie