<p>I hasten to add Practical Ethics by Peter Singer. Extremely captivating.</p>
<p>Classics that I love beyond belief: Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities (though I hate everything else by Dickens), His Dark Materials (known more commonly as the Golden Compass/Northern Lights trilogy), Wuthering Heights, and Les Miserables</p>
<p>Newer books that are completely awesome: the Twilight series (of course!), the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Harry Potter, plus the Charlie Bone series is okay</p>
<p>^His Dark Materials trilogy was really good.
I read Sabriel, Abhorsen, and Lirael by Garth Nix and enjoyed those as well. I think my all time favorite though was probably Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. That was just incredible. Flowers for Algernon too.</p>
<p>A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
... and of course ... I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max</p>
<p>It depends what kinds of book you are in to, I'm not into sci-fi books.
I'm mostly into books that deal with true life situations, events that can occur or have occurred to someone in life that they can then relate to the novel. Another I don't like reading plays, I rather watch the films of the play.
The books that I couldn't put down this year in AP English were:
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Kindred
Night
Blood Wedding
The Next Fire
Beloved(it's kind of difficult)</p>
<p>Harry Potter
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Pobby and Dingan
The Lovely Bones
Pride and Prejudice (my personal favorite)</p>
<p>My favorite book ever by far:</p>
<p>The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I hold this book dear to me.</p>
<p>On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy</p>
<p>My faves!</p>
<p>The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien, had to read it for school, and didn't like the idea of another war book, but it's amazing, I love the message in it as well.</p>
<p>Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, I read it recently this summer and I really liked it, you can get caught up into the story easily.</p>
<p>Anything by Vonnegut, all of Hitchhiker's Guide, Neal Stephenson, Ludlum, Sci-fi...</p>
<p>Vonnegut gets boring after a while. I've read 3-and-a-half of his books, and have no desire to continue.</p>
<p>Harry Potter is probably the most engrossing thing I've ever read. 1984 was amazing, Lord of the Flies and The Fountainhead were great, and Stephen King has some very good books.</p>
<p>@ nbnyc44
Shadow of the Wind is one of my absolute favorite books!!! I don't know anyone else who has read it so your post made me very excited :)</p>
<p>Blindness, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. And also, enjoy the movie about to be released in September. :D</p>
<p>Jodi Picoult- 19 minutes, Plain Truth, My Sister's Keeper, and The Pact</p>
<p>I see a lot of my fave books already mentioned - I'd just add Barbara Kingsolver - start with the The Bean Trees...Also, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (I still want to get out to Bozeman after reading that book) and the Diaries of Anais Nin. The Griffin and Sabine Triliogy too - they're just such beautiful, romantic books.</p>
<p>I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Book is much better than the movie)</p>
<p>Also anything by Agatha Christie, James Patterson, Jane Austen, Dan Brown and John Grisham</p>
<p>Shifu Yoda, Saramago is awesome. My personal favorites: Balthazar and Blimunda, and the short story The Centaur.</p>
<p>Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, All seven Harry Potters but the third one especialy, The Tenth Power, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit</p>
<p>I'll try to stick to ones people haven't mentioned yet:</p>
<p>Best Book I've Read All Year: Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p>
<p>The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Deliverance by James Dickey
A Fire Upon the Deep (Hugo winner) by Vernor Vinge
Spin (Hugo winner) by Robert Charles Wilson
Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Saving the Appearances by Owen Barfield (friend of Tolkien's)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell</p>
<p>Unintended Consequences by John Ross (don't even think about reading if you are in favor of gun control - but if you applauded SCOTUS and Scalia in DC vs. Heller, you should check this out)</p>
<p>^ Brave New World is another good one. So is Farhenheit 451.</p>
<p>Agreed Farhenheit 451 was an amazing book!!! definitely a must read, so much depth in it's message of mankind</p>