According to my ratings on Goodreads (I gave each of these five stars…), I think these are quality books.

• Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window by Raymond Chandler
• Tales Too Ticklish to Tell: Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed
• Inspector Saito’s Small Satori by Janwillem van de Wetering
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
• The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa
• The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
• The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell
• Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis
• Winston, Newton, Elton, and Ed by James Stevenson
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell