This is just a list of novels and fictional stories I enjoyed. No particular order. Not comprehensive. Random categories. Sometimes with random thoughts. Added randomly. Not including comics, mangas, and graphic novels.
FOREVER GREEN
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
- Perfume, The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Suskind)
- Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
- Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
For lonely nights
- The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
- A Home at the End of the World (Michael Cunningham)
- The Stranger (Albert Camus)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Phillip K. Dick)
- Shadowless Lamp (無影燈 – Đèn Không Hắt Bóng) (Junichi Watanabe)
- Two short stories, Rashomon and In a Grove (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
fOR nOSTALGIA’S SAKE
- The Plague (Albert Camus)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
- The Good Earth (Pearl Buck)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
- Madonna in a Fur Coat (Sabahattin Ali)
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
- The Magic Skin (Honoré de Balzac)
- Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- I am Legend (Richard Matheson)
- The Golden Pot (E. T. A. Hofmann)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
- Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
- Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
- Night on the Galactic Railroad (Kenji Miyazawa)
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Nobody’s Boy/Không Gia Đình (Hector Malot)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)
- Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoy)
- The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith)
- The Wanderer (Rabindranath Tagore)
- The Sorror of Young Werther (Wolfgang Goethe)
Guilty Pleasures
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- Sherlock Holmes Collections
- Nancy Drew Series
- Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
- Blooksucking Fiends: A Love Story Series (Christopher Moore)
- The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)
- The Shining Girls (Lauren Beukes)
- The Elementals (Michael McDowell)
- Ring Series (Koji Suzuki)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Karen Joy Fowler)
- Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
Pure Fun
- Aziz Nesin Collections
- Đất rừng Phương Nam (Sơn Nam)
- Short Stories by Phillip K. Dick
- Alice in Wonderland Series (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Machine of Death (Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki)
- American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
- Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
- Various books by Jules Verne
By Neil Gaiman
- Short Stories Collection
- American Gods
- Neverwhere
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
By Stephen King
- Salem’s Lot
- The Shining
- Carrie
- It
- The Green Mile
By Jin Yong
- Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes
- The Return of the Condor Heroes
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
- Ode to Gallantry
- The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
- The Deer and the Cauldron
by Gu Long
- Most of Lu Xiaofeng series
- Most of Chu Liuxiang series
- Horizon, Bright Moon, Saber
By Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- The Brothers Karamazoz
By John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- East of Eden
- Travel with Charley