Book recommendation thread

[Intense]

Never seen a thread on this before.

I admit that Im a book nerd. My favorites are Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

My looking for some recommendations on any good books. Im pretty open when it comes to genres, but Im not so much into Science Fiction so please try not to mention any, unless theyre REALLY good.

Anyways, have at it!

[Thevaultdweller]

Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, and The Things They Carried by O'Brien are all very good.

[Savirn]

The Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz, Night Fall/ Wild Fire By Nelson Demille, State of Fear by Michael Crichton.
For those who want to be financially stable in the future, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley/ William Danko, The Millionaire Mind by Thomas Stanley.

[Doombear]

Haruki Murakami

[Fryte]

I -loved- Survivor. I also read Choke by him and it was pretty good. You don't really know where the plot is going until it ends though.

[Ace-o-fire]

Sex Drugs Co Co Puffs, and Killing yourself to live. Both done by Chuck Klosterman.

He takes more of a popular culture mix.

[Intense]

I -loved- Survivor. I also read Choke by him and it was pretty good. You don't really know where the plot is going until it ends though.

I loved Choke also. Im just now starting to buy all these lol. I used to be ghetto and make daily trips to the barnes and nobles down the street from where I used to live and sit there for hours. ;3

[Snowknight26]

Do techno-thrillers count as science fiction? If so, then only The Firm by John Grisham; if not, add Prey by Michael Crichton in there.

[Intense]

Do techno-thrillers count as science fiction? If so, then only The Firm by John Grisham; if not, add Prey by Michael Crichton in there.

Whats it about?

[Nayr]

lolbooks?

[Deftscythe]

lolbooks?

Not so much.

On-topic: I'm mostly into Sci-fi/Fantasy, so I've got nothing for you.

[darkhero168]

if you like fantasy, i recommend David Gemmell.

[Fryte]

I'm in the process of reading Invisible Monsters, but I'm looking for an author that's as entertaining/similar to Chuck Palahniuk. Anyone know anything?

[thestalkmore]

Read Old School by Tobias Wolff. Truly astounding literature.

[Xfaustx]

i never knew anyone on these forums read books.

i should get on the book train. HARRY POTTER 5-7 HERE I COME

[Kytele]

I recently read Cell by Stephen King. I thought it was a great book.

[Slapper]

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

[Mr.City]

Pretty much The Dark Tower series by Stephen King and all the books related to it.

[scrockstar]

Tai-Pan / King Rat / Shogun by James Clavell. All must reads.

Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

For Sci Fi anything by Timothy Zahn.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

1984 by George Orwell.

Call of the Wild by Jack London.

Older Stuff:

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Confessions / City of God by Augustine.

I dare anyone (with 1/2 a brain) to read any of these books and not like them.

[Xerlic]

Haruki Murakami

A japan obsessed college friend of mine recommended this author to me. I didn't think anything of it until I saw a used copy of Norwegian Wood and picked it up for cheap. I can't say that I was too impressed. There was some buildup and then the book just kind of ended. A lot of people have said some great things about him, but I don't really see it. =/

I would recommend any of the short story anthologies by Neil Gaiman. Namely Smoke and Mirrors.