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Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. After playing the video games I was curious about the source and so started reading the novel. As good as they are the games are only superficially similar to the books, which are surprisingly rich, deep, detailed and well written.

Tess of the Durbervilles was made into a movie called Tess by Roman Polanski. I recall really enjoying it and it won a load of awards, though it doesn't hold a candle to the book. Still you might want to check it out after you finish the book. If you enjoy Hardy you should consider The Mayor of Casterbridge as well.

The Giant Killer
True story of a 4'9" guy that became a Green Beret in Vietnam

The bible

The Frontiersman, Allan Eckert. (a 2024 translation of a 1965 work)
The story of our westward expansion through Ohio and Kentucky after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
While the novel tells an interesting tale of Simon Kenton, Danial Boone and Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee, there are two major flaws.
1) The author is a self-hating White who projects human qualities onto primitive savages in typical liberal fashion.
2) Of all the books I've ever read, this author uses the most incredibly annoying writing style I've ever encountered. Every chapter is peppered with at least 20 paragraphs that end in mid sentence with no follow up. Sometimes 40.
Don't buy this book. Go to a book store. Find a copy. Open it at random and start reading. You'll quickly see what I mean. I hate an author that automatically takes the side of non-Whites in an effort to show how politically correct they can be, but this one is the first I can say I actually hate for the writing style.

Not recommended.

Also got a bio on Mother Teresa, a book on public speaking, and poetry by Jorge Luis Borges on tap. A minister just gave me a Christian book too. This all should keep me busy for the next couple of weeks.