This is not an exhaustive list of all books that I own or have listened to. It is merely a recommendation list of books that gave me a special feeling or inspiration.
Books marked with *s are ones I would definitely recommend to anybody, anytime, anywhere. Not because they're better than the others, but in my opinion just more 'special'.
Dutch
Heden ik, morgen gij - Hendrik Marsman & Simon Vestdijk *
De ontdekking van de hemel - Harry Mulisch *
Vals licht - Joost Zwagerman
English
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter *
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *
The Lord of the Rings series - J.R.R. Tolkien *
Love, Etc. - Julian Barnes
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell *
On the Road - Jack Kerouac *
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Sword of Shannara series - Terry Brooks
Talking It Over - Julian Barnes *
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig *
German
Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind *
Die Physiker - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Die unendliche Geschichte - Michael Ende
Italian
La Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
Russian
War and Peace - Leo TolstoyGreek
Ilias - Homer
Odyssee - Homer
