General book recommendations

For the prose

• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser

For the history

• The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
• Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel

For humor

• The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Sirens of Titan, and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

For business, management, and industry

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For nothing in particular

• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• Hard to Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky.
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman