Anna Karenina.  Jane Eyre.  We.  1984.  Blindness.  The Drought.  The Master and Margarita.  Grapes of Wrath.  The Tale of Genji.  All Men are Mortal.  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina por Eduardo Galeano.
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin.

Sitting on the floor of a bookstore.  The subway.  The bedroom.  By water.  On water.  Outside.  Everywhere.

Pretty obvious.

J G Ballard.  Kafka.  Rilke.  Blake.  Akhmatova.  Graham Greene.  John le Carre. Shakespeare.  Hemingway.  Virginia Woolf.  Anais Nin.  Simone de Beauvoir.  Dostoevsky.  E A Poe.  The best lecture I ever had in college was on Milton by a TA and I'll never forget it.