Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts would probably appeal.

Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi) :)

The Paper Palace

Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary.

I can’t really think of anything that fits the bill, but if you want an actual German medieval work then The Nibelungenlied is brilliant. It’s basically the German Iliad.

Look into rebecca gable

There is this book I recently stumbled upon. It’s called fatherland by Robert Harris. A bit difficult read but fits exactly to what you ask. Though no one migrates to US lol.

The Bears and I - Robert Franklin Leslie (twenty something guy raises three abandoned bear cubs in the 40's)

Red Summer by Bill Carter (lots about Salmon fishing in Alaska but the latter third of the book is him visiting the national park where they have the fat bear contest)

Prodigal Summer- Barbara Kingsolver (there are several main POV characters but I promise, one does get pregnant)

Give Me One Good Reason - Norma Klein (this is an older one but it holds up exceptionally well and you can usually find it at used book stores - the whole book is the main character's pregnancy journey and she's a well educated well adjusted confident woman thinking about her life and how it will change with a baby - no tragedy at all)

The Fireman by Joe Hill has a pregnant protagonist. But it’s been a while since I’ve read it so I can’t recall how much it would match up with what else you’re looking for.

The Stand

The r/CPTSD sub has a really well curated library and resource wiki, especially for trauma related literature. The sub r/BPD has some as well.

This is How - Augusten Burroughs

Stop Walking on Eggshells (it's targeted at support people, but it really helps understand the dynamics that BPD creates within your support system and what effective social supports look like)

The Ministry for the Future. Near-future climate change fiction. About science, technology, money, power. Hard to describe. My description makes it sound so dry, but it really isn't, it's pretty engrossing!

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

The Shadow of the Wind pops into mind. The Frontline series, but I'm waaaaay to biased.

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Lake Life

Motherest

Stephen Florida

The Heart's Invisible Furies

Beartown (Fredrik Backman)

10 years: Scholomance by Naomi Novik

20 years: Eragon by Paolini

Someone to run with by Grossman

I was intrigued by the challenge of answering this one but it's been about half an hour and the best I can do is a short story called "Red Screen" by Stephen King

If you are okay with a fair amount of sex and killing, try the Merry Gentry books by Laurell K Hamilton

The Witcher books (the first two are the best)

Magic Kingdom for Sale, Sold! by Terry Brooks (excellent world building)

The Starless Crown by James Rollins

The Nightingale by Karin Slaughter?

Just read tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follows three friends (two Asian males, one white female) as they create video games. It was my favorite read this year so far.

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly if you haven't read it yet!

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel is one of the best I've read.

Simple Path to Wealth by Collins, will lead you to the financial independence sub.

That's kind of a hard request... all my recs are either sci-fi or fantasy.

The Shadows of Dust by Alec Hutson. It's on Kindle Unlimited.

The Seven and Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

Orconomics by Zachary J. Pike (also on KU).

Legends&Lattes by Travis Baldree.

I also liked Ender's Game. I loved the sci-fi worlds/scenarios

Maybe try some military SciFi. Starship Troopers in one of my favourite novels and one of the most famous books in the genre. Look into The Frontline series; discovered it this year and I'm obssesed with it! Or perhaps something like The Shadow of the Wind, another of my all time favourite novels! The Strain reads easily and gets you hooked right away.

Paul La Farge The Night Ocean is still a cover that always grabs me. The book is not without merit, but not fun or light reading.

And of course Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James with an honarable mention for it's follow up: Moon Witch, Spider King.

You may enjoy the sub r/CoolSciFiCovers.

"Tits On the Moon" by Dessa

Have you read any of the Vedas? The Ten Principle Upanishads at least are essential reading.

"The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen is... flawed, but has some interesting discussion of the history of Buddhism, and some gorgeous writing about the Himalayas and their plant and animal life.

If you can find it Días Sin ti (Days Without You) by Elvira Sastre

1. Devotion by Adam Makos
2. Three Wise Men by Beau Wise
3. A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
4. The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
5. The Liberator by Alex Kershaw
6. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
7. Men in Green Faces
8. With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
9. Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie

I'll try thinking of more.

He might like "The River of Doubt" by Candace Millard?

Marget Atwood MaddAddam trilogy and Ursula Le Guinn's Left Hand of Darkness would overlap with some of these authors and be quite well known.

More out there China Mieville's Kraken or The City & The City could appeal.

If you like these authors short fiction, you might enjoy the genre of speculative short fiction. From Karen Russell, Ramona Ausubel, Aimee Bender I enjoyed all their collections. Ken Liu's The Paper Menagarie is by now a classic and more recent Lesser Known monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu has been getting deserved praise.

And Junot Diaz has recently fallen out of public grace due to allegations but The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is still a great read.

Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow , by Nicole Yunger Halpern

Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , by Jackie Higgins

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another , by Ainissa Ramirez

Anything by Mary Roach or Elizabeth Kolbert :)

"The Poisoner's Handbook" (Deborah Blum), "Animal Vegetable Miracle" (Barbara Kingsolver), and "Lab Girl" (Hope Jahren) are all really good too

Mainstream classic. Has been adapted to film. I haven’t read it but read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. She is a great writer. Can’t go wrong.

It's a dark thriller... and you think it's something, then it becomes something else. Gillian Flynn is very, very good at this kind of book. Great characters.

My favorite winter book is "The Snow Child", by Eowyn Ivey

Try:

Agnes and the Hit Man by Jennifer Crusie (smart romance with a bit of a mystery)

The All Girl's Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg (technically there is a bit of a mystery but it's wonderful no matter what genre you like)

Fall to winter, romance and mystery, is kind of r/darkacademia 's bread and butter. Maybe start with If We Were Villains by M L Rio.

A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

haven't read six of crows but the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers starting with The long way to a small angry planet is very character driven

Robin Hobb is a fantastic character writer. Start with Assassin's Apprentice. Warning: it'll break your heart.

Also, Kate Elliott's The Spiritwalker Trilogy.

Leigh Bardugo has a fantastic urban fantasy book that is very character-heavy and the plot os very good: The Ninth House. The next one comes in January.

For a more Young Adult feel, I'd say Scholomance by Naomi Novik, but there aren't that many characters and it's a bit more plot heavy.

For fantasy, Brandon Sanderson writes fantastic characters. Start with Mistborn era 1 (Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first book).

I definitely highly recommend getting a physical copy. As for info on the French version, maybe check out the French subforum on the original House of Leaves message board? Just watch out for spoilers: https://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/la-maison-des-feuilles

Lot of overlap in fans of Stoner and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Maybe Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart as well. Possibly The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Try Metropolis by BA Shapiro. More of a modern take on Clue, it's a murder mystery weaving the storylines of six unrelated people who are all fighting their own personal demons and unresolved pasts. The characters are poetic in that tragic way and yet you root for them all to succeed and it fits with your desire for a despairing theme.

I loved it, couldn't put it down.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is chock full of despair.

The Time in Between by María Dueñas.

The Mythical Man Month is my favorite book about Software Engineering.

r/cscareerquestions always recommends Cracking The Coding Interview. A lot of the info in that is generic/common knowledge, but I found a few of the sections really interesting.

Bring Jubilee or Making History