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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Important ideas but dry writing. I'd recommend a good summary instead of the full book for most people.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Harker's journal entries at Castle Dracula are some of the most suspenseful pages in all of literature.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. Every page is a declaration of independence.
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Starbuck is the most tragic character - the only sane man on a doomed ship, unable to change its course.
Frankenstein o el Moderno Prometeo
Mary Shelley
The DeLacey family subplot is crucial - it shows the creature capable of love and kindness before rejection hardens him.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. P. Steed
Read between the lines - this isn't about a whiny teen, it's about grief and trauma. Holden is broken.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The irony! Austen was doing social satire before it was cool. Mrs. Bennet is comedy gold.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Not a love story - a story about obsession and destruction. All the more powerful for it.
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Read it at 12, re-read at 30. At 12 I loved the adventure. At 30 I understood the themes of loss and sacrifice.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Pairs perfectly with 1984. Where Orwell feared banning books, Huxley feared no one would want to read them.
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