book recommendations

this is a collection of books that i enjoyed, and recommend strongly to others.

they are not arranged in any particular order.

see my goodreads for an uncurated list of things i've read.

fiction

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

• Roots by Alex Haley

• The Octopus by Frank Norris

• The Good Solider Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (tr. Cecil Parrott)

non-fiction / (auto-)biographical

• The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

• Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (tr. John Addington Symonds)

• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

philosophy

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

• The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

• The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

• Ways of Seeing by John Berger