'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy
'Of Human Bondage' Somerset Maugham
'A Fine Balance' Rohinton Mistry
'The House Gun' Nadine Gordimer
'The Warmest December' Bernice L. McFadden
'The Gulag Archipilago' Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
'The Things They Carried' Tim O'Brien

Not really a novel but my favorite two poems.

Homer's Illiad and Odessey, two of the greatest stories ever told.

Anything by Arthur Rimbaud especially A Season In Hell.

fantastic mr fox - roald dahl
les miserable - victor hugo
sidartha - forget...
lone wolf and cub - (graphic novel)

She Came to Stay - Simone deBeauvoir

It's an excellent piece of fiction as well as a beautiful philosophical work.

"In pursuit of Justice (collected writings 2000-2003)" by Ralph Nader.

Just bought that tonight. Would recommend it to those that like this kind of subject.

One of the other reasons that I like Nader is that he is highly articulate.

I would recommend

Metamorphosis by Kafka
The trial by Kafka
The prince by Dostoevsky
Paradise lost by Milton


Every thing else has be mentioned

Some more the Art of war by Sun Tzu
and Beyond good Nietzsche

Anything by William Gaddis.. (JR etc...) also Kurt Vonnegut (The list here is endless.. Cats Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five etc.)

For Politics I would suggest

Seymore Hersch- The road to Abu Gharib
Thomas Friedman-Longitudes and Attitudes : The World in the Age of Terrorism
-The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Go here: www.fantasticfiction.co.uk...

Any author who is anybody is on that site, with a complete list of every book they ever wrote. Only fiction writers are included, however, any non-fiction they may have written is also there. I find this site most useful for when I read one book by a kick-arse author and want to know if he/she has done more. It's also good if you are into long series of books (as I am) so that you can be sure you have the whole series before you get into it.

altered carbon by richard morgan also any of his other books, all good.
any peter f hamilton, he's brilliant.
ringworld by larry niven.
early robert a heinlein, before he'd decided he'd rather have been born a woman....
'throy' series by jack vance, such warmth and lyricism...
the throwback by tom sharpe, quite simply the funniest book i've read.
the men who stare at goats by jon ronson, a must read.

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein

Childhood's End- Arthur C Clarke

Seize The Night ; Fear Nothing- Dean Koontz

The Stand- Stephen King

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy- Tolkein

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis ( I also recommend his space trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra & That Hideous Strength

A Brief History of Time- Steven Hawking

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

A Stillness at Appomatix ( about the civil war)- Bruce Catton

A Rumour of War- Phillip Caputo ( about Viet Nam)

Just a few of my favorites in no particular order

the shining - stephen king
see no evil - bob baer
the prince - nicolo machiavelli
sword and the shield - mitrokhin and andrews

I actualy had a book reccomended to me, that i havnt gotten around to yet.

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Has anyone read it and able to reccomend it?

Yes, I have read this book. A movie was made about it, too (I think it was just a made-for-tv movie; anyway, I saw it a few years ago). It was, overall, pretty good, though I found that near the end it got kind of weird (you'll see what I mean, but the part I consider 'weird' was left out of the movie completely, probably for that very reason). Le Guin is a good writer; I've read several of her books, the best being the Earthsea series. She does both sci-fi & fantasy.

Love the Harry Potter books.
Also big fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, just frustrated with how long it is taking to get the series written.
Jayne Ann Krantz book Sheild's Lady (technically it is romance, but it is kind fantasy/romance)
Used to love the Bobsey Twins and Trixie Beldon
And pretty much anything I can get my hands on. I do read a lot of romance but mostly because you can pick them up anywhere for practically a dime apiece.

I don't really know if it would be a good recommendation, but my favorite book of the moment is Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde... I had to read it for school, and I enjoyed it more than any other book I've ever had to read for school-related purposes... It's a really good book for "deep thinkers"

"American Gods" Neil Gaiman
"1984" George Orwell
"Memoirs of a Geisha" Arthur Golden
Harry potter books- i think they are very educational for everyone
"King Lear" William Shakespeare
"NeverWhere" Neil Gaiman
"Midnight" Dean Koontz
"It" Stephen King
"Portent" James Herbert
"The Dark" James Herbert
"Alicein Wonderland" Lewis Carrol