These are in no particular order of preference. I appreciate recommendations.
- The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti
- Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse Thanks to Tom McCarthy for the recommendation.
- Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
- True Grit - Charles Portis
- Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
- The Friendly Orange Glow - Brian Dear
- Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
- From Third World to First - Lee Kuan Yew
- The General in His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Heat - Bill Buford
- Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
- Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Ways of Seeing - John Berger
- Tiepolo Pink - Roberto Calasso
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
- The Tiger - John Vaillant
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy
- The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux
- The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
- The Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari
- Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
- The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
- The Hunters - James Salter
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
- Typhoon and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
- Independent People - Halldór Laxness Recommended by Jamie Martin.
- The Complete Essays - Michel de Montaigne
- The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Moneyball - Michael Lewis
- A Rough Ride - Paul Kimmage
- Passport to Magonia - Jacques Vallée
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson
- Out of Africa - Karen Blixen
- The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
- Papillon - Henri Charrière
- The Westies - T.J. English
- The Gangs of New York - Herbert Ashbury
- Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
- All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
- Zero Zero Zero - Roberto Saviano
- Black Elk Speaks - Black Elk, John G. Neihardt
- Odessa Stories - Isaac Babel
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Devil in the Kitchen - Marco Pierre White
- The Anti-Catastrophe League - Tom Ough
- A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Russian Thinkers - Isaiah Berlin
- The King of Oil - Daniel Ammann
- The World for Sale - Javier Blas
- The Prize - Daniel Yergin