David Simon Yohalem, Senior Scientist Danish Institute of Agricultural
Sciences Research Centre Flakkebjerg 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
 
exclusively fiction I'd include these, off the top of my head:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Stories of Breece D'J. Pancake
The Manuscript Found at Saragossa by Jan Potocki
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
White Noise by Don DeLillo

If one does not include history, biography or professional (scientific)
literature but does include memoir/fiction then I'd include the following.

Maus I&II by Art Spiegelman
A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean

And the 2 most important lay books for me have been:

Chaos by James Gleick
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond


more my Top 10 books: Lifetime Readings

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