nonfiction: The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins; Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert; Blink, Malcolm Gladwell; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks; Phantoms in the Brain, V. S. Ramachandran; Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
fiction: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides; Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck; all Tom Robbins books.