Two FBI Profilers
Not as well-known but more authoritative are three books by two real-life FBI profilers, John Douglas and Robert Ressler.
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset’s masterpiece is actually a trilogy.
“Helena” by Evelyn Waugh
Published in 1950, it concerns the titular empress and saint, who lived during the 200s and 300s A.D. and was the mother of Constantine the Great.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
James Joyce (1882—1941) was one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century.
Rare Earth by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee
Their non-fiction book challenges the common assumption that the universe teems with complex life-forms (intelligent or otherwise).
Kafka’s Stories and Novels
Franz Kafka, insurance agent and literary genius, died from tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of forty.