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- I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley
- Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley
- Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
- Event by Slavoj Žižek
- Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
- Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
- J by Howard Jacobson
- The Whole Man by John Brunner
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Hippolytos by Euripides – translated by Robert Bagg
- William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher
- The Pathseeker by Imre Kertész
- Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux [read for doppelgänger theme]
- Two Crocodiles by Fyodor Dostoevsky & Felisberto Hernández
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities by Paul Cartledge
- From Democrats to Kings: The Downfall of Athens to the Epic Rise of
- Alexander the Great by Michael Scott
- Earthworks by Brian Aldiss
- Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing by
- Roger Rosenblatt (ironically — horribly written)
- The Persians by Aeschylus – translated by Seth Bernardete
- Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by
- Tom Holland (Brilliant. Highly recommended.)
- Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht – translated by John Willett
- Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus – translated by James Scully
- La maladie du papier de Eero Tolvanen, dessins de Jean-Jacques Sempé
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler (misleading title, philosophy NOT religion!)
- Homeric Hymns – translated by Sarah Ruden
- Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy ( not recommended )
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
- Shenzhen by Guy Delisle
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut