great reading experiences
Craving for a new book is like craving for a new friend - who we expect to have all the qualities of the old ones and still be able to constantly surprise us.
Fiction
In Search of lost time - Marcel Proust
The man without qualities - Robert Musil
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
19th-century Russian literature, in particular :
The shot, Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
Sketches from a hunter's album - Ivan Turgenev
Nonfiction
Repeat after me, David Sedaris
Hitchcock-Truffaut interviews
Far from the tree, Andrew Solomon
Consider this, Chuck Palahniuk
The Power Broker, Robert Caro
The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
Death and life of great American cities, Jane Jacobs
The sensual Quadratic Form, John Conway
Economics, Hugh Stretton