This is a short/noncomprehensive list of books I got something out of.
S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Hayes translation.
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace.
The Book of the New Sun (series) by Gene Wolfe.
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
Dune (series) by Frank Herbert.
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
The City and the City by China Mieville.
A Pattern Language by various.
The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow.
White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
The Odyssey by Homer.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
Various collections by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
Thinking Architecture and Atmospheres by Peter Zumthor.