<p>I second Ender's Game and The Picture of Dorian Gray! I also really like what I've read of Amy Tan, Octavia Butler, and Isabel Allende because I'm a sucker for "ethnic fiction" or whatever, whether or not it's my ethnicity. Um... Orson Scott Card is my idol, although I generally prefer his older work (I've heard some of the newer stuff, like Empire, is pretty bad.) Ender's Game is classic, but some of my other favorites are Enchantment and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (yay, allohistory!).</p>
<p>I followed Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl religiously. Some of the "hip" books I really enjoyed were Life of Pi, White Oleander, and The Thirteenth Tale.</p>
<p>I just read "I Am The Messenger" by Markus Zusak. I really liked it--it was kind of quirky and cool. I thought it was muuuuch easier to get through than The Book Thief, which kind of dragged at times.</p>
<p>i will always love Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie just because. although if you're looking for more "serious" literature...actually i'm not really sure what's considered serious lit because i can't even pretend to be well-verse on this kind of thing. i just read whatever looks interesting, haha. but yes...</p>
<p>everything by Haruki Murakami.
everything by Kurt Vonnegut.
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Berni</p>
<p>A Great Abd Terible Beauty
Rebel Angels
The Sweet Far Thing
They are all by Liba Bray</p>
<p>The Singer of All Songs
The Waterless Sea
The Tenth Power
They are all by Kate Constable
Those are just six of my favorites I could go on and on.</p>
<p>I also have a thing for historical fiction in which famous artists are prominently figured, but the story is told from one of said artist's intimates. If that makes any sense. So, Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring by Rita Charbonnier.</p>
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Fiction: I absolutely love To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
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In middle school, we did a project about that book. I, of course, was more interested in counterstrike then school so I spent the last day before the project rushing to finish it up. I read a few cliffnotes on the internet about it, and set about doing my project...I hadn't really paid attention, so on accident I titled the project "HOW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" lol</p>
<ul>
<li>Memoirs of a Geisha</li>
<li>Chinese Cinderella</li>
<li>The Royal Treatment</li>
<li>The Kite Runner</li>
<li>Twilight</li>
<li>The Other Boleyn Girl</li>
<li>The Overachievers</li>
<li>The Bell Jar</li>
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<p>Oh, if you like speculative fiction, you've got to check out a Nebula Awards showcase at some point in time. It's good if you don't have a lot of free time for recreational reading because it's all short stories. If I start on a novel and, you know, like it, I sort of feel like finishing it in one sitting, but with these you can read a story and then do something else for a while...</p>
<p>A few more:
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom</p>
<p>My all-time favorite book is All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, called the greatest antiwar book of all time with good reason (even though it never even takes a stand). </p>
<p>I'm currently reading Forgotten Fire, a fictional story about the Armenian Genocide, and its pretty good. I have a thing for history. :P</p>
<p>My favorite book is the Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I’ve read it almost 4 times (almost 4 because when I was 3/4 of the way through my 4th time reading it, I let my friend borrow it)! I love it so much.</p>
<p>The Danzig Trilogy (The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years) - Gunter Grass
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Tales - H.P. Lovecraft
Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
The Re-awakening - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Demian - Herman Hesse
The Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima</p>
<p>I agree with Watchmesoar. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing is SUCH a fantastic book. I’ve been trying to get some of my friends to read it.</p>
<p>My other favorites are Catcher in the Rye, Memoirs of a Geisha, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Anna Karenina. (:</p>