Your question about 10 books other people should read reminded me a survey I did some years ago asking people for the list of 10 books that had most interested them. I don't remember what were my own answers at that time, I shall check later, here are my answers for today:

1. Wahrhaftige Historia
   Hans Staden

2. Théâtre d'agriculture
   Olivier de Serres

3. The confessions of an English opium eater
   Thomas de Quincey

4. Mea culpa
   Céline

5. Katyn
   General W Anders

6. Tristes tropiques
   Claude Lévi-Strauss

7. Subtile Jagden
   Ernst Jünger

8. Ma confession
   Albert Caraco

9. Escolios a un texto implícito
   N Gomez Davila

10. Garden
    Derek Jarman

- Philippe Bille