Here are some books I’m reading currently that you might enjoy. Lots of different styles and choices, but they all kept me entertained and traveling mentally in another world. Have fun and Happy Thanksgiving.
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (from the point of view of a scientist–edifying)
Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Angle of Repose (novels, brilliantly crafted)
Robert Fisk, The Great War For Civilization (Conquest of the middle east–last century and a half)
Daniel Yergin, The Prize (quest for oil, power, money)
Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage (Lewis and Clark)
Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood (religion and the history of violence)
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (WW II fiction, prize-winning)
Proust, Swann’s Way (persistence and nature of memory–slow going , thick, detailed, try little doses)
Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (autobiographical, rich detail,7 volumes, riveting, easy to identify with his life)
Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and In Shadow, Refiner’s Fire, and A Soldier of the Great War (well-executed novels, like eating dessert)
Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat (narrative non-fiction about the quest for olympic gold in rowing 1936)
Mark Strand, Blizzard of One (poetryPulitzer Prize)
John Irving, The Water-Method Man (novel)
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (selections, meditational, confessional)
Bart Ehrman, How Jesus Became God (scholarly explanation how the church reframed the nature of Jesus)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Living With a Wild God (autobiographical, for the seeker)