Book Recommendations?

[Rev. Rye]

Here are a few books I read and would recommend in the last year alone (with a few additions from the first 22 days of this year italicised), reformatted and expanded from a previous post:
(Bear in mind, these are by no means ALL of the books I read in the past year, just the ones I liked enough to recommend)

Autobiography:
Boy by Roald Dahl
Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Angela's Ashes and 'Tis by Frank McCourt
Andy Kaufman Revealed by Bob Zmuda

Classics:
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (tr. Edith Grossman)
Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Moby Dick, The Confidence Man, The Piazza Tales, and Billy Budd (all by Herman Melville)
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Death of King Arthur by Thomas Malory (the Ackroyd edition)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses by James Joyce
Oliver Twist and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Trial and Selected Stories by Franz Kafka
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Candide by Voltaire
Gulliver's Travels and Tale of a Tub (and a host of others) by Jonathan Swift

Social Science/Philosophy:
The Collected Works of Malcolm Gladwell
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

History:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Brilliant Disaster by Jim Rasenberger
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskins
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things by Matthew White

Humor:
That Is All by John Hodgman
Amphigorey by Edward Gorey (standing in for the MANY Gorey books I've collected since I went to the Gorey retrospective at Loyola.)

Modern Fiction (defined: the author was alive within my lifetime)
The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
Forever by Pete Hamill
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Shibumi by Trevanian
The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children, both by Tom Perotta
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith


Poetry:
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (tr. Johnston)

Drama:
The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson

And, while I haven't actually started it yet, at the moment, Notes From Underground (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation) is the next book in my queue, and, while I haven't read it in years, I hope it will be good enough to recommend.

Also, I'm sure I can add more if I go back further.