I shall begin with a short list of recommendations from my personal repertoire. Be on the lookout for updates, since I will likely add titles as I read and enjoy them. Each title is listed with its author and links to the pertinent Goodreads page so you can look at reviews and summaries. Feel free to add yours, too!
Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Stone Dance of the Chameleon (trilogy), Ricardo Pinto
*special note for our yaoi fans: homosexual pairings*
The Chosen, The Standing Dead, The Third God
The Prince of Nothing (trilogy), Scott R. Bakker
The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet, The Thousandfold Thought
The World of Riverside, Ellen Kushner/Delia Sherman
*special note for our yaoi fans: homosexual pairings*
Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword, The Fall of Kings
The Coldfire Trilogy, C.S. Friedman
Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows
Thunderer (Duology), Felix Gilman
Thunderer, Gears of the City
Ombria in Shadow, Patricia McKillip
The Tower at Stony Wood, Patricia McKillip
The Lions of Al Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
Echoes of the Great Song, David Gemmel
Horror
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Thomas Ligotti
Classic and Historical
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (NEW!!)
History
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, T. E. Lawrence
Lafayette, Harlow Giles Unger
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, John Ferling
Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow
The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England, Ann Wroe
Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, Robert B. Asprey
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: The Rise and Fall of Nicholas Foucquet, Charles Drazin
Monsters of the Gevaudan: The Making of a Beast, Jay M. Smith
Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration, Marius B. Jensen
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann (NEW!!)
Philosophy
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Japanese
Silence, Endo Shusaku
Garrpe diem!
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Confessions, Kanae Minato
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Mishima Yukio
The Sound of Waves, Mishima Yukio
Patriotism, Mishima Yukio
No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
Otogizoshi, Osamu Dazai
The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata
The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
German
Measuring the World, Daniel Kehlman
The Lime Works, Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald
Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
Demian, Herman Hesse
French
A Void, Georges Perec
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
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