To name some favourites: A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Younghusband by Patrick French, The Truce by Primo Levi, The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, In the Pond by Ha Jin, Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Home is the Sailor by Jorge Amado, A Room with a View by E. M. Forster, Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan, Shadowlines by Amitav Ghosh and some short stories by Anton Chekov.
Other books I have recently enjoyed are Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin,Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel, Into the Silence by Wade Davis, New Grub Street by George Gissing, Theft by Peter Carey, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer and Arrow in the Blue by Aurthur Koestler.
