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[Rahul0282]

Greatly recommend "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom! Can change your perspective about life!!

[Steelrails]

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (the guy behind the TV show 'The Wire')

The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

[kberger]

Wow, two people mentioned David Foster Wallace. I might as well be the third. I got interested in this guy when I read a speech he gave at some graduation at some college.
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words
I read that, read it again, and I still like to go back and look it at once in a while.
I have been working my way through Infinite Jest for a little over a month now. I can't seem to get more than 10 pages read before I am mentally exhausted. Check out his stuff if you are up for a challenge.

[dharma bum]

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

Postmodern novel about a guy who creates his own dice-based baseball game and becomes obsessed with it. The story is interesting and flows well while also providing lots of philosophical food for thought.

[fezmond]

moon dust - andrew smith

a great look at the men who went to the moon

[alljokingaside]

[darkjedidave]

I love Terry Brooks and his Shannara series. One of the best fantasy writers out there.

[Died By Bear]

Current budget only allows for 2 new hardcover books a year. I just bought "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. Should have ordered it from amazon and saved myself some money, but it was an impulse buy at the airport.

[cbank30]

read harry potter. they're great.

[Skipperoo]

For sci-fi you can't do much better than Iain M. Banks to my mind. Most sci-fi stuff I find to be either interminably dull and humourless or too fantastic to suspend my disbelief for. Whereas he manages to strike an excellent balance between two, creating both a compelling and convincing universe while still writing interesting and likable characters.

Some of his books aren't ideal for first-timers though, so do a google of his best before digging in.

For most of 2011 I was working my way through his back catalogue, but my other two favorites of the year were:

White Fang by Jack London. Picked this up because I remembered the cartoon series from when I was wee and thought it'd be a nice cosy book. Haha, wow, they certainly took some liberties with that source material didn't they? Brutal and often touching story written entirely from the perspective of a wolf, but entirely without anthropomorphising it.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Made my top 5 books of all time with a bullet, read it.

[cheezsteakwit]

The "Game of Thrones", by George R.R Martin, is hard to put down.

I'm on the 4th book ( of five) right now.- 'A Feast For Crows'

The first book is VERY true to the HBO series , so you can jump to the second book ( 'A Clash of Kings' ) if you've already seen the TV series.

The 3rd book , ' A Storm of Swords', has been the best so far , in my opinion.

the whole series is called ' A Song of Ice & Fire.'

[Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

[Malislamusrex]

I have to admit I think fiction books for children

Ernest Hemingway - Old man and the sea.

Best book ever read, I could focus on reading it on the trans- siberian express in winter after drinking a bottle of vodka the night before.

[littlelisa]

[Died By Bear]