Anthony suggested:
The Double: A Poem of St Petersburg by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (oy vey)
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
PT suggested:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Factory Girl by Leslie Chang
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years by Jared Diamond
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Cath suggested:
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America's Strangest Jail by Thomas McFadden and Rusty Young
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
(Cath notes: 'All the books I read relate to life in a foreign prison or people who get busted for drug smuggling and then end up in a foreign hellholle.' Make of this what you will.)
XOXO
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin
The Odyssey of Homer
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (or, for that matter, Baudolino by Umberto Eco)
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
The War for Muslim Minds by Gilles Kepel
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