Here are more books from that Kevin Brockmeier list that I received at Sewanee.

Stoner by John Williams,

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (I imagine that’s on everyone’s list)

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

The Neighborhood Series by Goncalo M. Tavares

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (I have liked all of her books!)

His Dark Materials Triology by Philip Pullman

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Selected Poems by Frances Ponge

Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater (this is an interesting one)

Meamorphoses by Ovid (a classic classic)

A Collection of Essays by George Orwell