Some of my favourite books from recent years:
Math
Men of Mathematics – E.T. Bell
Mathematics in Western Culture – Morris Kline
A Concise History of Mathematics – Dirk J. Struik
The Joy of X – Steven Strogatz
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – Jordan Ellenberg
Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
Selected Stories – Anton Chekhov
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Cossacks – Leo Tolstoy
The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Count of Montecristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelha