Toni Morrison is so good! I fell in love with her work reading Beloved; she has such a tender yet precise way with words. It cuts straight to the bone - it could destroy you at any moment.
My current book is The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston which is a non-fiction book about dictator Franco's rise to power in Spain and the horrific abuse the country suffered under him. I'm reading it for my UCAS statement. It's a difficult read, and I can only imagine how it felt to have to immerse yourself in all that day in day out to write it. Similarly, my current novel is Cervantes's Don Quixote (Parts I and II), which I'm also reading as prep for Uni. It's not too difficult when I read a chapter in English, but the Spanish is nearly 500 years old and a little antiquated, but the book is genuinely entertaining and funny in parts, so... a decent read, I guess? In terms of last book for pleasure, that was probably A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, which I re-read last week! A great tragicomedy about academia and living in New Orleans, which reminds me of John Williams's Stoner, another favourite of mine. What's your favourite book - or, if that's too difficult, what'd be the one book you'd take with you to a desert island?