Need suggestions for good book

[Shalmanese]

Thinking of extending my summer reading list(thats right, its summer down here in oz while you poor american sods are freezing your asses off) and need some suggestions for some profound or memorable books that you have read. Here are my suggestions for anyone who also needs something to read:

Must reads:
deep, profound books which, I think everybody needs to read at least once, highly recommend them to you.

Title Author
1984 George Orwell
The Outsider Albert Camus
I am David Anne Holm
Lord of the rings JRR Tolkien

John Brunners:
This authour deserves a category of his own, best author I have ever known but is, sadly, hard to find nowadays. Word of warning however, most of his novels are extremly hard to start since his writes with a very fragmented style but keep at it as you will be greatly rewarded.

Stand up on Zanzibar
The shockwave rider
The sheep look up
The crucible of time
The jagged orbit

Great books:
Books that you should read when you get the chance

Nine tomorrows Isaac Asimov
2001: A space odyssey Arthur C Clarke
Various Rohl Dahl
Neuromancer William Gibson
The once and future king TH White

Time wasters:
Books that will whittle away a plesurable couple of hours

Tom Clancy series
Brian Jaques series (Redwall)
Terry Pratchett series (Discworld)
Asimov series (Foundation)
David Gemmell series

BTW: PM me if you have read any of these and want to discuss them, I am open to any comments suggestions or interpretations of them

edit: something screwy is happening with the spaces so I can't get the coloumns for title and authour lined up

 

[IamDavid]

Hows about the "O'Reilly Factor" by Bill O'Rielly.

 

[Viper GTS]

Read the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. 😉

Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal

All three by Thomas Harris, of course.

I read Hannibal, now I have to go back for the other two.

Viper GTS

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I can recommend "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.

 

[glenn1]

Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" for the great books reading category. "The Road to Serfdom" by Friederick Hayek for a thinking man's refresher on economics. Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" illustrated stories (read: upscale comic books) for pleasurable, and thoughtful reading.

 

[WetSprocket]

If you like fantasy. Robert Jordan-Wheel of Time series is pretty good.

 

[dcdomain]

Anything by Anne McAffrey

Her Dragon Riders series is awesome... The book, the White Dragon is my personal favorite...

 

[BadMuleS]

If u want GREAT books, and im talking great books that you will sink your teeth in, Read books by a guy named Richard Marcinko.. this guy is a nutt lemme tell ya.. he is an ex navy seal, and regarded as teh baddest navy seal to ever walk to face of the earth i might add, and is feared by many(although im sure none of u fellas 🙂 ).. im telling you that you will love these books, everyone that has read them to this date that i ahve talked to loves his work, and that covers about all of 40 people but 40 people cant be wrong i would think, no? anyways when i was down in flight school in daytona beach, i worked waldonbookstore so i know a thing or two about books, try him he's real good and his books are cheap!!!

 

[Shalmanese]

thanks for all the suggestions, forgot one as well

read the Schodingers cat series by robert anton-wilson(I think)
bizzare would be the best way to describe them

 

[luv2chill]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Little Prince (ou Le Petit Prince si vous parlez francais) by Antoine de Saint Exupery
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Seven Habits Of Highly Eddective People by Stepehn Covey
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Stranger (L'Etranger) by Camus

That's off the top of my head... I'd also second the recommendation of Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Read one if not both.

The Bible [no flame wars please!!!] is also a good read (although admittedly difficult), if not for enlightenment then for the sheer fact that it is an ancient text and is educational.

l2c

 

[Shalmanese]

Oh, yes..
forgot futuretrack5 by robert westall

BTW:
luv2chill: Ive read brave new world but it just didnt have that patina of 1984 that made so great. Something just didnt work as well.

Have read the little prince and loved it for the genuine naivity the authour has, great book. The stranger is the same as the outsider, different translations. PM me if you have any insights about that book, that book intrigues me yet is a hard nut to crack.

 

[gUEv]

another vote for the fountainhead, by ayn rand...