I've read through most of Cormac McCarthy's books.... they are generally kind of dark (The Road, No Country for Old Men for example), though "Suttree" was a bit less so. I'd cautiously recommend "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". It is probably the most violent book I've ever read, but still strangely interesting. As I'm getting older, violence in movies/TV and other media is less appealing and more appalling, but I would still go see this one in theaters just to see how they portrayed the Judge Holden character, ...if they could ever figure out how to turn this book into a movie.
I also recommend the books "The Box:..." by Marc Levinson and "Ninety Percent of Everything:..." by Rose George. They cover the history and development of the shipping container and a narrative overview and history of the shipping industry respectively. I thought the authors did a good job of making what could be a very dry subject, pretty interesting (they also do a great job of filling out part of the picture of "economic globalization" and how as transport costs dropped precipitously, trade increased, and jobs (labor costs) were shifted to wherever was cheapest). Another book, The Empire of Cotton, was pretty good at looking at the history of cotton growing, spinning, weaving and how it played a major role in world trade and industrialization, but this one was way too long to hold my interest so I never got around to finishing it.
