I had to think long and what the last books were that I didn't have to read for university...

The last I enjoyed were Anthony Doerr's 'All the Light We Cannot See' and Omar El Akkad's 'American War'. And I will always recommend Kirino Natsuo's 'Out' though that's almost twenty years old by now. (Back when 'Out' was first released in Japan, there was basically a wave of panic that the feminists were now going to murder all husbands everywhere lol)