Fiction : “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay” - Michael Chabon
Nonfiction:
“The Selfish Gene” -Richard Dawkins
“The Reflexive Universe” - the guy that invented the bell helicopter- Arthure something. Best nonfiction book ever written
“Conciousness Explained”- and anything else by Daniel Dennett
“Denial of Death” - Ernest Becker
If you haven’t read Catch-22 yet, you’re missing one of the great pleasures of life.
The same is also true for The Grapes of Wrath.
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons, is the best science fiction book of recent years. If you read it, you’ll probably want to also read the sequel, called The Fall of Hyperion.
Right now, I’m working on Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov, which is also a very original work of science fiction.