I don't know if these would interest you but off the top of my head, I like these:
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Terry Pratchett- Discworld series of comic fantasy
David Lodge -
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a boy
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch
Jorge Luis Borges- Ficciones (in translation)
Per Olov Enquist - Livläkarens besök (Title of the English translation: The Royal Physician's Visit)
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is illuminated
Alessandro Baricco - Silk
non-fiction: Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Blink .
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