5 picks for fiction and non-fiction as ~pathways to my heart~ specifically

fiction:
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Italo Calvino - The Complete Cosmicomics
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

non-fiction:
Antonin Artaud - The Theatre and Its Double
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
John Cage - Silence: Lectures and Writings
Joan Copjec - Read My Desire (read earlier this year and has become an instant fav)

also extension of the above but should go without saying that Lacan has massively influenced my thought arguably more than any other writer, but it's hard to single out an individual text from him more so than considering his entire body of work as its own object