Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

 An earlier book by Murakami.  Like all his books, the plot is continually unraveling out in left field somewhere.   A mix of daily grit and occult with some parallels to Greek mythology thrown in - Hades, trips to the land of death.  The characters are unusual well- developed.  Especially the old man, Nakata, grows on you - in his mental simplicity, he has almost a Zen character.   The nominal theme would seem to be about the search for identity and the sense of self, but there are other threads - nature of time and death, the act of reading, the shallowness of most social constructs we live by.  

Worth a reread.

The Case Against Reality - Donald Hoffmann

An interesting argument that we know nothing of the physical world around us, nor even of ourselves.  Given that our brain (whatever it might be) is a medium that interprets stimuli from the external world, we can know only the interpretations, the filtered image, not the real thing - whatever that may be, and if it is at all possibly knowable given our limitations/filter.  We can't even know that nature of our own filter, because as we study the human brain and body, we are perceiving not some final reality, but a filtered images of our physical selves.
A complex book with a complex idea - but it seems very reasonable.  Worth rereading to understand in greater detail.   It all begins to sound very Buddhist...