Which Books Should I Read?

Dear Momofuku,
Which books do you recommend?
--Seeking

Dear Seeking,
After Momofuku Ando graduated from college, he worked for two years as a librarian. (This was in Taiwan, where he grew up.) In his spare time at the library, he liked to read foreign literature in translation. In particular, he enjoyed Shakespeare. He also read the work of Tatsukichi Minobe, whose text on constitutional theory famously posited the "emperor-as-organ" theory, according to which emperors were subordinate to state power. However, Momofuku claims (in his autobiography "Magic Noodles: The Story of the Invention of Instant Ramen) that he usually chose books "randomly and unsystematically, covering a wide range of knowledge and information."