So here is a list of the favorites all on their own:
- Theodor W. Adorno: Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life
- Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes
- Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities
- Perry Anderson: Passages From Antiquity To Feudalism
- Miguel Angel Asturias: El Senor Presidente
- Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things
- Honore de Balzac: Eugenie Grandet
- Honore de Balzac: Father Goriot
- Honore de Balzac: Lost Illusions
- Brian Barry: Culture & Equality
- Anthony Bourdain: Les Halles Cookbook
- Karin Boye: Kallocain
- Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
- Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
- Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
- Alejo Carpentier: Explosion in a Cathedral
- John le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- David Chang: Momofuku
- Eleanor Clark: The Oysters of Locmariaquer
- Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
- Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
- Jim Crace: Arcadia
- Jim Crace: The Gift of Stones
- Charles Dickens: Bleak House
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed - On (Not) Getting By in America
- James Ellroy: The first LA quartet
- J. G. Farrell: The Empire Trilogy
- Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Neil Gaiman: American Gods
- Günter Grass: The Tin Drum
- David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars
- Knut Hamsun : Hunger
- Thorkild Hansen: Arabia Felix - The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
- Joseph Heller: Catch-22
- Mark Helprin: Winter's Tale
- Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Roy Jacobsen: The Unseen
- J. P. Jakobsen: Digte og Udkast
- J. P. Jakobsen: Niels Lyhne
- C L R James: The Black Jacobins
- Johannes V. Jensen: Kongens Fald
- Franz Kafka: The Castle
- Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- H. D. F. Kitto: The Greeks
- Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
- Halldor Laxness: Iceland's Bell
- Jonathan Lethem: Fortress of Solitude
- Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
- Federico Garcia Lorca: De døde har vinger af mos
- Henning Mankell: The Wallander series
- Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall trilogy
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Patrick McGrath: Spider
- William McIlvanney: Laidlaw
- Patrick Modiano: Missing Person
- Elsa Morante: History
- Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood
- Michael Ondaatje: In the Skin of a Lion
- Nicholas Ostler: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
- Jakob Paludan: Jørgen Stein
- Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Ian Rankin: The Rebus books
- Klaus Rifbjerg: Den Kroniske Uskyld
- Philip Roth: American Pastoral
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Ole Sarvig: Den Sene Dag
- W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn
- Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch
- E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
- Søren Ulrik Thomsen: City Slang & Ukendt under den samme måne
- Søren Ulrik Thomsen: Nye Digte
- Rupert Thomson: The Five Gates of Hell
- Olga Tokarczuk: The Books of Jacob
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
- John Williams: Stoner
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1-4