Your favorite books?

[tbach24]

The Curious Incident about the Dog in the Nighttime

Everyone who I know who's read it has enjoyed it and it's my favorite book.

[TylerD]

you've probably read my two favourites, but if not:

George Orwell, 1984
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

[jacki]

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The Curious Incident about the Dog in the Nighttime

Everyone who I know who's read it has enjoyed it and it's my favorite book.

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Great book.

I'll add:
Moneyball
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Bear Went Over The Mountain

If you're into WWII, read anything by Stephen Ambrose, particularly D-Day and Citizen Soldiers. And Band of Brothers.
His Lewis and Clark book is good too.

[diebitter]

If your interested in the workings of modern politics, I'd suggest:
1984
Dune

[Michael Davis]

Invisible Man by Ellison.

Topic is electricity.

-Michael

[The Yugoslavian]

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy....best/favorite book I read in high school. I'm rereading it and so far, it has lived up to the remembered hype.

I really like Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

As for like bestselling thriller book I feel the best one I've ever read is The Day After Tomorrow (no, not the book about the weather) by Allan Folsom?

Yugoslav

[DasLeben]

"1984" George Orwell
"Lord of the Rings" JRR Tolkien (I'm a geek)

Probably some others too, but those are the big two that stick out in my mind.

[MrTrik]

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I knew there had to be one person in this thread that didn't recommend total crap.

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I would imagine everyone here has complete confidence that you read all those selections and determined them to be total crap. Or I guess you are just absorbing a work's content and value through an oriface that was truly meant to be an 'exit only' oriface.

[gumpzilla]

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Good call. That's a fine novel. Also, Joseph Heller's stuff is good; I recommend his short stories, which can be found in the book Catch as Catch can.

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DeLillo doesn't really do it for me. He can put together some pretty sweet sentences, but his books as a whole don't make much of an impression on me, or at least the two I've read (White Noise and Ratner's Star).

Here are a few books that I've liked across a pretty broad range of things, with a slight slant towards things I've read recently:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (hard to describe, all over the place and tends to wax philosophical)
The Selfish Gene (nonfiction, about evolution)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (fiction, England at the time of Napoleon, but with magic)
The Fortress of Solitude (fiction, pretty much a coming of age story)
Lolita (fiction, middle-aged man falls for teenage girl)
Godel, Escher, Bach (nonfiction, very clever book mostly about self-reference and Godel's Incompleteness Theorem)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (nonfiction, anecdotes from probably the most idolized physicist of the past century.)
Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky writes good)

Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, as others have recommended, are pretty good choices as well.

[Pocket Trips]

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"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

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Amazing book... great summer read too