"Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things) "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how t

"Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things) "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in) "Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis (also his "Epitaph of a Small Winner") (The narrower the life, the more intense the obsessions) "The Count of Monte Cristo" (get the Robin Buss translation from Penguin) ("Wait and hope")