Demons, Brothers Karamazov both by Dostoevsky, Freedom and the Tragic Life by Ivanov, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov,In the Fifth Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn..see a theme here?
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, some crazy long bio I read on Hemingway, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…see another theme?
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, The Chosen by Chaim Potok and also My Name is Asher Lev, Candide by Voltaire, A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline L’Engle, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Invisible Man by HG Wells, Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
an amalgam of other authors and genres