<p>I Am America( And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert. I had to read it for a paper that i had to write it was actually hilarious and i actually liked reading it.</p>
<p>The Kite Runner</p>
<ol>
<li>The Chronicles of Amber (had to put down unwillingly to sleep and eat - it's 10 books, for crying out loud!)</li>
<li>The Master and Margarita</li>
<li>The Brothers Karamazov</li>
<li>The Great Gatsby</li>
<li>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</li>
</ol>
<p>Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones</p>
<p>TWLIGHT
NEW MOON
ECLIPSE.
so good :]</p>
<p>fight club
rant
choke
(chuck palahniuk in general)
a seperate peace
the perks of being a wallflower
the things they carried
the lovely bones
the shining
the bell jar
hp
reading love in the time of cholera now </p>
<p>oh dear, i could go on forever.</p>
<p>arrowsmith, freakonomics
I also liked some of Lance Armstrong's books</p>
<p>Catch-22 is phenomenal.<br>
A Walk in the Woods, A Short History of Nearly Everything, or anything by Bill Bryson are good to read when you have other things going on and just read randomly here and there.</p>
<p>If you like sci-fi/fantasy...
Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman
Song of Fire and Ice Series by George RR Martin
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan</p>
<p>Song of Ice and Fire.</p>
<p>I've read alot of books/series, but this one really stands out. Fantastic series.</p>
<p>In terms of actually not putting it down, I finished Animal Farm in one session.</p>
<p>The Magic School Bus series</p>
<p>1984 was pretty good this year, since it was the only non-school-required book I've read this year.
Count of Monte Cristo last year.
Three Musketeers last year for school as well. </p>
<p>Probably the only books (if I remember correctly) that count as "intellectual", respectable books or some sort. </p>
<p>And a bunch of others. Btw, I hate Harry Potter - too boring. =/</p>
<p>Girl with a Pearl Earring
Things Fall Apart
Memoirs of a Geisha
Sula
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Hobbit
The Alchemist
Kite Runner
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
Animal Farm
A Confederacy of Dunces</p>
<p>blasphemy!</p>
<p>The absoulte best series I have ever read is The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It is a massive series - more than 12,000 small-print pages - set in a world alike The Lord of the Rings, but much, much more intricate. I can recomend these books highly.</p>
<p>Other books have been Informal Logic (now, that must sound geeky) anything by R. A. Salvatore, and the books on Diablo, Starcraft and Halo.</p>
<p>The Twilight Series. Not the greatest literature in the world, but absoutely captivating. I think I read them for 15+ hours straight. And I'm on my 5th or 6th time through in less than six months. They're the best, hands down.</p>
<p>Slightly better literature:
Watership Down (much better than it sounds)
The Chosen
Jane Eyre
Anthem
Brave New World
1984
Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>I third The Wheel of Time; myy kickbutt English teacher totally recommended that to me.</p>
<p>The Little House Series
House of the Scorpion
His Dark Materials (specifically the third book)
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
On Beauty - set at a liberal arts college
Lolita
Clockwork Orange (it's good for a brain workout, that crazy madeup language..)
Passage to India
Little Women</p>
<p>And so much more..I'm a fast book reader :P</p>
<p>AMERICAN PSYCHO=truly inspiring and self-reflecting novel</p>
<p>If you liked Kite Runner, try A Thousand Splendid Suns...I think it is just as good!</p>