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chrisms

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I'm halfway through On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and it could end up being the best. The first Kerouac novel I've read, plan on getting more.

I'm a big Hunter Thompson fan, but have never read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet.. so I have that to look forward to.

I plan on getting to War and Peace eventually, but is it worth it? I've seen it in bookstores, what a gigantic novel.
 

Juno

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1984 by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
Only the Strong Survive by Larry Platt (A biography about Allen Iverson, a great book)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
 

Brule

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Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Lord of the Rings
Walden
Candide

EDIT: A novel deals with concretes and creates an emotional response that non-fiction can't do. For example, 1984 is powerful in a way an essay against censorship never could. (it makes sense to read the non-fiction afterwards if you want a better understanding)