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Read Musashi if you want an awesome classic Samurai tale. (I haven't finished it yet, but I'm like 600+ pages in. The current hardcover edition is almost 1000 pages, so expect some really dense reading)
1984 is also another favorite of mine if you don't mind dystopian stuff.
I've always enjoyed reading, but I haven't gotten into novels until last year >_> it's why I currently don't have much to recommend, but those two books are real good. I got a lot more **** to read as far as fiction goes; Animal Farm and Neuromancer are my only other two novels on my backlog atm.
Depends on what you like... I'm more fantasy myself so I'll recommend some. The last one however is not fantasy.
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
- Overall great series, bit long of books though if you're not a heavy reader they can be daunting.
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
- Pretty much same as above.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- One of the few Sci-Fi novels I've read but probably one of the best books I've ever read. The one's following it, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, etc are more philosophical based but still excellent reads. The parallel ones about Bean starting at Ender's Shadow is personally my favorite though.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- One of my overall favorite books of all time. Great intrigue and plot that keeps the entire book interesting until the very end. Recommended the most of all. Dumas also writes The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers if you're interested.
EDIT- Oh wait, just noticed this wasn't comic books.
Ticknor by Shelia heti
The Middle Stories By Shelia Heti
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Myterious Flame Of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
How To Travel With A Salmon by Umberto Eco
anything by Italo Calvnio
i havent read the posts, tltr rt now, but has anyone recommended Playboy, I read it for the articles.
LOL
A good one I always liked was the Tenth Kingdom, Zero liked it too so there's two votes for it. I'll find the book and let you know who wrote it...
but are you looking for any type of book, Am, foreign?
I personally am a huge fan of Neal Stephenson. Sometimes his stuff is psychological, but more often than not it's just really neat ideas. My favorites among these are The Diamond Age, or: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, and Anathem. Anathem is particularly mindbending, for reasons I can't reveal lest I spoil it.
A more psychological work for you to try is Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Holy ****, what a mind****.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- One of the few Sci-Fi novels I've read but probably one of the best books I've ever read. The one's following it, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, etc are more philosophical based but still excellent reads. The parallel ones about Bean starting at Ender's Shadow is personally my favorite though.
Just about anything in the Ender Universe is a good read, but Ender's Game is unquestionably the best. I'll definitely put my vote behind this recommendation.
anything by Haruki Murakami in fact.
Norwegian Wood is my favorite book of all time.
My second favorite book is "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley. This is how vampire stories should be done. This is what people should like. Not that... ridiculous... sparkling ****fest that is so celebrated for no reason.
I would also recommend George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones"
which is being made into an HBO series right now, so get it while it's hot. It can be pretty dense to read, almost like LoTR series in a way, but it's creative and interesting. It's own little world.
Lolita-Vladmir Nabokov
Dune- Frank Herbert
At the mountains of madness- Lovecraft
The Stand-Steven King Night watch- sergei lukyanenko
The hobbit-Tolkin
Orwell
Brave new world-huxley it-steven king
The ones in red are ones I personally enjoyed, regardless of the lack of acclaim for them.
Edit: I agree on the ****
"Do robots dream electric sheep" is probably his most famous work