Not easy to make recommendations, but let's go (though I think you might have read most of them). Some are the very latest I've read
SF : Douglas Adams :
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and his other stories related to this one (so funny (though i've never finished it but it was because of lack of time at the moment); Isasc Asimov's books (never read though, just began
Foundation)
WWII related : Kenzaburô Ôé :
Hirsohima notes (not related to Holocaust, but gives you another point of view of the war (well, it was new for me 'cause in Europe (or maybe just in France), we don't study a lot about that part of the war). A book that maybe all french students have read once in their life : Joseph Joffo
A bag of marbles (here is the Wiki link :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bag_of_Marbles
others/ : so many choices. If you like Murakami Haruki :
1Q84 series, or
Kafka on the Shore; and the latest I've read (very funny and you're "traveling" in the world political history): THE CENTENARIAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED by Jonas Jonasson...
Thanks for the thread, I think I will try some of other MDLer's recommendations!