<p>The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
Cosmic Banditos by Allan Weisbecker</p>
<p>well if youre into war fiction i highly recommend Regeneration by Pat Barker. i read it in a day cause i couldnt put it down.</p>
<p>its amazing!</p>
<p>I am reading the In Search of Lost time series by Marcel Proust. Heh it gets dry a lot however after most reading sessions I find myself rather enriched, about life.</p>
<p>I do take a break and read other classics. I enjoyed lots of Vonnegut, some of Faulker (the sound and the fury was an ewww, do not recommend.) </p>
<p>But I really like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's stuff, if anyone reads them. I got started on Love in the Time of Cholera since it was alluded by a lot of things I have seen in the past (tv, movies, Oprah ;) Anyway it was really enriching. Now I couldn't go on with a week without discussing "unrequited love" with my friend. </p>
<p>Hundred Years of Solitude is a MUST read for most intelligible human beings. I couldn't find a better compilation of all my life's philosophy in one literary work.</p>
<p>The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and We the Living by Ayn Rand -- I feel like everyone should read at least one, consider it, and develop an opinion towards it.</p>
<p>This side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- I've heard people call 'This side of Paradise' naive and whatnot, but I feel like it's a lot better written than Great Gatsby.</p>
<p>As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, etc. by Faulkner -- Beautiful pieces, perhaps a little different than the normal writing. It's more 'train of thought'-like, somewhat similar to Joyce. I suppose it's harder to understand than standard writing.</p>
<p>Ragtime, World's Fair, etc. by E. L. Doctorow -- Faulkner-esque -- has the flow in language, yet remains intelligible to most people. =]</p>
<p>Artemis Fowl & series, by Eoin Colfer -- So so entertaining. Fast paced plot, sweet characters. What's not to love?</p>
<p>His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman -- Good books!</p>
<p>Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card -- Excellent story. I suppose it's not really distinctive stylistically, but the plot is amazing.</p>
<p>I probably left out a lot.</p>
<p>Black like me
The Alchemist
Theodore Rex</p>
<p>Ummm... The Atonement, The Witching Hour, Oliver Twist, Harry Potter, Drowning Ruth are all good reads. </p>
<p>Its sort of funny when I read my old diary from like, the third grade and I remember what books I used to like so much such as Junie B. Jones, The Sweet Valley Series, etc. and I think about all those countless hours I spent just simply reading. As a matter of fact, I recently read an old book I used to love and I find it so strange that I used to love it when it was so silly.</p>
<p>"My not-so intellectual favs: the Twilight and Harry Potter series"</p>
<p>^my kind of books right there :D</p>
<p>sad, i have "Life of Pi" but i got bored in the middle >_<</p>
<p>Haha. A bit more of "children's literature" buuut...</p>
<p>Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli.</p>
<p>The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams.</p>
<p>I've only read One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I have a feeling I really like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am also a big fan of Jonathan Safran Foer.</p>
<p>The Fountainhead is very thought-provoking as well. I just received a copy of Atlas Shrugged and will probably read it some time soon.</p>
<p>Cry, the Beloved Country is not my favorite book but every word in it makes such poetry. I would read it for the prose alone.</p>
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I am so not a fan of this book.</p>
<p>The Time Traveler's Wife, absolute favorite.</p>
<p>what;s about the Book which is written by Hillary Clinton</p>
<p>i have to agree with in cold blood by capote.</p>
<p>also i'm reading crime and punishment and the pages just fly...</p>
<p>the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera is probably one of my favorite book of all time, if not, my favorite book of all time.</p>
<p>oh yeah and the sound and the fury by faulkner was incredible</p>
<p>on the recommendation of many people in this thread i read the handmaid's tale and LOVED IT! it was a book you couldn't put down but yet didn't want to end. i especially loved the brilliant epilogue at the end which made everything that happened seem so realistic and chilling when placed in a "historical" context, and managed to make me feel thankful at the same time. won't give anything away though :) i hate that the story ended just as the epilogue was tantalizingly putting together the pieces of a highly intriguing puzzle.</p>
<p>The books I’ve read in class aren’t very challenging, they are some of the books I’ve read in my spare time in the past eg. Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice.
But my favorite author (one of them) has to be J D Salinger, I loved The Catcher in the Rye and then I read Franny and Zooey, which was really thoughtful and an overall great read. I also adore Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. And I loved This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald. I like Amory Blaine. But I dislike his theories.
More modern books I enjoyed reading are The Life of Pi, The Secret Life of Bees and I actually like Markus Zusak’s books; I am the Messanger, The Book Thieft. Curtis Sittenfeld is also nice, Prep was very interesting and American Wife was alright.</p>
<p>Mitch Albom’s.</p>
<p>And of course, the Shopaholic Series and anything by Sophie Kinsella<- it’s like self-reflection :P</p>
<p>ENDER’S GAME. Period. and SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD.</p>
<p>Sherlock Holmes… C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy…</p>