- The Kindness of Women by J.G Ballard (1991)
- City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende (2002)
- Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol (2002)
- Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol (2005)
- Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (2007)
- Atlas of Remote Islands: 50 Islands I have not visited and never will by Judith Schalansky (2009)
- Night Waking by Sarah Moss (2011)
- A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth (2009)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann (2009)
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner (2005)
- The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (2011)
- The Ritual by Adam Nevill (2011)
- Harry Potter by J.K Rowling (1999-2007)
- The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad (2011)
- Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion by Johan Harstad (2005)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)
- Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2006)
- The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009)
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S Naipaul (1961)
- The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (1958)
- The Sly Company of People who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (2011)
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (2000)
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (2010)
- The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
books you should read 2011
