Books

Old but gold

• S. Sturluson "Younger Edda"

• J. Verne "L'Ile mistérieuse"

• E. Brontë "Wuthering Heights"

• C. Brontë "Jane Eyre"

• A.C. Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

• J. London "The Call of the Wild"

• J. London "White Fang"

• J. London "Martin Eden"

• O. Henry "Collection of short stories"

• C. Dickens "David Copperfield"

• C. Dickens "The Christmas Carol"

Wars and politics

• E.M. Remarque "Im Westen nichts Neues"

• D. Trumbo "Johny Got His Gun"

• J. Hasek "The Good Soldier Svejk" <--This one is funny

• S. Alexievich "The Unwomanly Face of War"

• A. Lindgren "Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren"

• K. Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death"

• A. Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"

• G. Orwell "Animal Farm"

• G. Orwell "1984"

• G. Orwell "Homage to Catalonia"

• Heinrich Böll "Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa..." (short story)

• W. S. Maugham "The Unconquered" (short story)

• Юрій Гудименко "Історії та війни"

• Валерій Маркус "Сліди на дорозі"

Books for... well, staring at the ceiling and thinking about life

• M. Boulgakov "The Master and Margarita"

• A. Solzhenitsyn "Cancer Ward"

• S. Zweig "Schachnovelle"

• J. Fowles "The Collector"

• V. Nabokov "Lolita"

• L. Tolstoi "Anna Karenina"

• T. Dreiser "Trilogy of Desire"

Books for aggravating your depression...

... because people are mean and/or stupid, system is rotten and the life has no sense

• G. Orwell "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"

• A. Schopenhauer "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit"

• W. Golding "Lord of the Flies"

• A. Camus "L'étranger"

• A. Camus "La Peste"

• J-P. Sartre "La Nausée"

• R. Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451"

• A. Huxley "Brave New World"

• D. Keyes "Flowers for Algernon"

• F. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

• E.M. Remarque (any book except for "Im Westen nichts Neues")

• F. Kafka "Die Verwandlung"

• K. Hamsen "Hunger"

• A. Spiegelmann "Maus"

• M. Artwood "The Handmaid's Tale"

... so you just want everyone to disappear

• A. Weisman "The World Without Us" (non-fiction)

• C.H. Kearny "Nuclear War Survival Skills" (civil defense, just in the case you don't want to disappear yourself)

• J. Krakauer "Into the Wild" (and that's what happens if you decide to disappear anyway)

• Andrei Kourkov "The Pinguin"

... but you are too lazy to do something about it

• I.Goncharov "Oblomov"

• J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

Non-fictional accounts on all kind of things:

... on history

• Christopher Clark "The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914"

• Yuval Noah Harari "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"

... on bad life

• Yeonmi Park "In order to live" (on escape from North Korea)

• Christiane F. "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" (on sad life in West Berlin in 70th, drugs, rock-n-roll and prostitution)

• V. Malarek "The Natashas" (human trafficking issues)

• P. Kalanithi "When Breath Becomes Air" (on the life with a metastatic lung cancer)

• O. Rolin "Le Météorologe" (On the life of A.F. Wangenheim)

• F. Aubenas "Le Quai de Ouistreham" (on SMIC workers in France)

• E. Saks "The Center Cannot Hold" (on the life with schizophrenia)

... on fun life

• H.S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"

• H.S. Thompson "The Rum Diary"

• J. Krakauer "Into the Wild"

• B. Mezrich "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who Took Vegas for Millions"

... on professional life

• J. Melinek "Working Stiff: 2 Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner"" (Forensic pathology)

• A. Lomachinsky "Stories of a Forensic Expert"

• M. Bulgakov "A Young Doctor's Notebook" (semi-fictional)

• O. Sacks "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (psychiatry)

• R. Feynman "Surely You're joking Mr. Feynman!"

• R. Feynman "What do you care what other people think"

... on mountaineering

• H. Harrer "Sieben Jahren in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama"

• J. Krakauer "Into Thin Air"

• A. Boukreev "The Climb"

• M. Herzog "Annapurna: premier 8000"

• E. Viesturs "K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain"

• E. Viesturs "The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna - the World's Deadliest Peak"

... on natural (or not) disasters

• S. Alexievich "Chernobyl Prayer: A chronicle of the Future"

• A. Kuznetsov "Babi Yar: A document in the Form of a Novel"

• D. Simmons "The Terror" <-- this one is fictionalized (on Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedititon)

• P.P. Read "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors" (on Andes plane crash)

• V. Albanov "In the Land of White Death" (badass account on Arctic Expedition without proper equipment)

Science fiction

• R.A. Heinlein "Starship Troopers"

• K. Vonnegut "Timequake"

• S. Lem "Solaris"

• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic"

• Arkady and Boris Strugarsky "Monday Begins on Saturday"

Humour

• J.K. Jerome "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)"

• M. Twain "Letters from the Earth"

• T. Pratchett "The Unadulterated Cat"

• M. Pagnol "La gloire de mon père"

• M. Pagnol "Le chầteau de ma mère"

• A.P. Chekhov - Short Stories

• M.M. Zoshchenko - Short Stories

• L. Solovyov "The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace"

• L. Solovyov "The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara"

• H.P. Lovecraft "Sweet Ermengarde"

Mystery and macabre

• J. Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla"

• B. Stoker "Drakula"

• E.A. Poe "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"

• N. Gogol "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"

• W. Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" (short story)

• A. Chekhov "Sleepy" (short story)

• H.P. Lovecraft "The Call of Cthulhu"

• S. King "Insomnia"

Poesie

• E.A. Poe "The Raven"

• C. Baudelaire "Les Fleurs du Mal"

• J.W. von Goethe "Erlkönig"

• J.W. von Goethe "Wandrers Nachtlied"

• H. Heine "Die Lorelei"

• F. Schiller "Das Mädchen aus der Fremde"

• folk ballad "Herr Mannelig"

• V. Mayakovsky "Backbone Flute"

• V. Mayakovsky "A cloud in Trousers"