. I read "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. Brilliant book and good writer. Read this when you have plenty of time in hand. Has almost 1000 pages. Next, "Absurdistan" by Gary Shteingart is a funny and satirical novel. Read it if you have a good sense of humor. Shteingart may be the best writer of our generation. Finally, I cannot remember the name of the writer but the book is titled "The Plot to Save Socrates". It is a fiction playing on the idea of time travel, and how somebody tries to travel in time and save Socrates by preventing him from drinking the hemlock poison. Very interesting read. You do not have to be a science-fiction and time-travel nut to enjoy this novel.