A list of books from other genres that have a special place on my bookshelf:

• “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” – Betty Smith
• “The Poisonwood Bible” – Barbara Kingsolver
• “The God of Small Things” – Arundhati Roy
• “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” – Haruki Murakami
• “The Road” – Cormac McCarthy
• “A Suitable Boy” – Vikram Seth
• “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” – Jonathan Safran Foer
• “A Fine Balance” – Rohinton Mistri
• “Wild Swans” – Jung Chang
• “Gone Girl” – Gillian Flynn
• “Water for Elephants” – Sara Gruen
• “In the Heart of the Sea” – Nathaniel Philbrick
• “Lolita” – Vladimir Nabokov
• “Dark Star Safari” – Paul Theroux