I completely agree that paper books are superior to tablets. Never been able to do the switch.
I do listen to audiobooks while doing other stuff though, like mowing the lawn, driving or whatever, but then only lighter literature, like a crime novel. When I really sit down to read, I want it to be a real book.
Making a list is hard though. These days I read more history books than fiction, and in both cases mainly Swedish writers.
But if I go back in time to what I've read before, it may be more useful.
In my teens I read a ton of SciFi, favourites were probably Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 by the former and the Foundation Series by the latter in particular. But also Heinlein, C Clarke and others. Flowers for Algernon.
A lot of the other classics a s well.
Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Animal Farm, The Bell Jar, To Kill a Mockingbird.
QBVII by Leon Uris. Of Mice and Men. The Old Man and the Sea. All good.
Next I did a lot of "international" books:
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is good. Most of his books are.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevi Singer
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Koscinsky - now that is a book that shook my core!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. For a while he was my favourite author.
Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses are two must reads by Salman Rushdie. Great books.
The Handmaid's Tale. Really liked that one. Haven't bothered to watch the TV series though.
The Tin Drum by Günther Grass. That's a good one.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna.
Actually, anything by Väinö Linna. By far Finland's best author imho.
Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. My favourite Russian; Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Tolstoy never really did it for me.
But sure, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov was a blast. I did like that one.
Neither did I ever really get into French literature.
I mean, I've read The Plague as well as The Stranger by Camus, but - meh.
Bonjour Tristesse - the title says it all.
Although to be fair, I did enjoy some of Marguerite Duras's books. The Lover, Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Anyway, moving over to the non-fiction books that I read more of these days:
The Man In The Ice by Konrad Spindler
Neanderthal Man: In Search For Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri
The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner - really eye opening
Soccernomics by Kuper and Szymansky
Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina by Eduardo Galeano
Dreams of My Father by Barak Obama - the man can write!
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump
Perestroika by Michail Gorbachev
The last one a bit dry, but all the others are definitly recommended reads, at least in my twisted opinion.