I'll throw a few more out there:
Non-fiction
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah - eye-opening account of being a child soldier in Africa
"A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life" by J. Craig Venter - a scientist details his personal struggles with the politics surrounding the sequencing of the human genome
Can Lit
"Island" by Alistair MacLeod - on Atlantic Canadian rural life and mortality
Mystery
"The Way Through the Woods" by Colin Dexter - British detective Inspector Morse at his finest
"Koko" by Peter Straub - a group of Vietnam vets attempts to solve a serial killer mystery
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