in no particular order, and by no means a complete list:

• fellow travelers, thomas mallon
• the stranger, albert camus
• the sleep of the just, mouloud mammeri
• borrowed time, paul monette
• the seven pillars of wisdom, te lawrence
• i have no mouth and i must scream, harlan ellison
• crime & punishment, fyodor dostoevsky
• frankenstein, mary shelley
• the vampire chronicles, anne rice
• the master and margarita, mikhail bulgakov
• one way street, walter benjamin
• the trial, franz kafka
• maurice, em forster
• giovanni’s room, james baldwin
• nausea, jean paul sartre
• sixty stories, donald barthelme