Some books I like
(no particular order)
La machine infernale, Jean Cocteau
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Le lion, Joseph Kessel
La nuit des temps, René Barjavel
Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
La ville de la chance, Elie Wiesel
Belle de jour, Joseph Kessel
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Into the Wild, John Krakauer
La traverseuse, Sophie Backer
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Vol de nuit, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Into Thin Air, I once was trail running with an older gentleman in Boulder. He spoke about his Everest expeditions from the 90s and I naively mentioned Into Thin Air. With British phlegm he responded: "I reckon if you look at the end of the book, you will see my name in the acknowledgments." John Krakauer
Premier de cordée, Frison Roche
The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel
Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire
Un amour de Swan, Marcel Proust
Iliad, Homer
Aeneid, Virgil
Effroyables jardins, Michel Quint
Un amour pour rien, Jean d'Ormesson
Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales
The Evolution of Beauty, Richard Prum
and other stories I enjoyed:
The Lonely Death of George Bell, N.R. Kleinfield in The New York Times
Bright Flight, Vanessa Gregory in Harper's
Frozen Alive, Peter Stark in Outside