The Iliad (Homer trans. (Robert Fagles)

Ulysses (James Joyce)

The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)

Riders in the Chariot (Patrick White)

Another Country (James Baldwin)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

The Proud Tower (Barbara Tuchman)

The Sleepwalkers (Christopher Clark)

The Giant, O’Brien (Hilary Mantel)

Return of a King (William Dalrymple)

My Struggle (Karl Ove Knausgård)

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli)

2666 (Roberto Bolaño)

Underworld (Don Delillo)

American Pastoral (Philip Roth)

The Rings of Saturn (WG Sebald)

No-One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood)

The Morning Star (Karl Ove Knausgård)

Second Hand Time (Svetlana Alexievich)

Underground (Robert Macfarlane)