Greetings all,

Spring break is coming up, and I wanted to read a bit over that period of time. Anyway, I'm just looking for good books to read, and possibly start a series of some sort.

So yeah, post your favorite books. Any genre as well works.

Book Series: Chronicles of Narnia, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Single Books: The Giver, The Dark Side of Nowhere.

Series: Sword of Truth, Hitchhiker's Guide

Single: Princess Bride

Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose. Easy read, and a great book.

LOTR trilogy.

Or anything by Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe or Lovecraft.

I'd like to be the first to recommend The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

The DaVinci code - Dan Brown

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Survivor (or Fight Club) by Chuck Palahniuk
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Yup. And some of the other stuff Pterry's done, such as the Bromeliad Trilogy and the Johnny Books.

Oh, H2G2 and generally anything by Robert Rankin.

After you read these, read CS Lewis' Space Trilogy. (Classic Sci Fi Trilogy, as a bonus, it's a modern day coninuation, a sequel of sorts, to Lord of the Rings, although you dont find this out till the third book)

More Fantasy:

The Once and Future King by TH White
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Sci Fi:

A Scanner Darkly, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick

Neuromancer by William Gibson
Noir by KW Jeter
Dune by Frank Herbert
2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 (3001 only for completeness and closure) by Arthur C Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke
Stranger in a Strange Land, Beyond this Horizon by Robert A. Heinlein
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

History:

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classics, Politics, Religion and Philosophy:

1984, and Animal Farm by George Orwell
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Screwtape Letters, The Weight of Glory, and Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

Books I have not read, but they are on my own personal to-read list and I am sure are good:

Anna Karanina, and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishmen, and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Main Street and Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Call of the Wild, and White Fang by Jack London
August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The White Plague, Frank Herbert
Dahlgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis

I know thats a long list, but I hope it gives you a couple of ideas.

Also Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons

One of the best books ever written...Just don't forget to read The Giver as well... >.> <.<

I wouldnt recomend this. For me, it totally did not live up to the hype, I thought it was a mediocre novel at best. If you just want something mindless and fun to read, go for it though.

I thought it was great

All Quiet on the Western Front

or the best book i've read ina loooooooooooooooong time

Frederick Forsyth - The Odessa File

The Giver was an amazing book for sure. For series I would go with the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. (There are really like, 25 books in the whole series, but the Dark Elf Trilogy starts them off). They are awesome.

Robert Heinlein-
Stranger in a Strange Land
Starship Troopers
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
The Number of the Beast
Friday

Ray Bradbury-
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Dandelion Wine
I Sing the Body Electric!

What's wrong with you guys?

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman

The Earthsea Cycle.
I also second the LOTR trilogy, with the hobbit and silmarillion.
If you want a star wars universe book, free and online, without it having the characters go to out of character then may I please direct you to: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1784370/1/

Though I haven't read The DaVinci Code, I've heard that it's basically a dumbed down version of Foucault's Pendulum, which I am currently reading.

I heard the same thing. I tried to get into Focaults Pendulum, but I didnt think it was very well written and didnt stick with it.

My favorite book was The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmerbradley

This was an awesome book. It is about King Arthur.

I also liked the silence of the lambs, some of the dragon lance books, and IT,

Another good book to read is
Go ask alice. It was a journal of her life. It was an amazing book. It is about the world of drugs.

I've been reading sci-fi a lot lately. If you want a good series that will keep you busy for a while try the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. There are about 14 books that are related.

I've been meaning to get into that for a while. Whats the best book to start with?

STAR WARS: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter

STAR WARS: Trilogy

Perhaps, LOTR Trilogy, it's good, but long.

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

I personally found this book better then the Da Vinci code for my personal fascination with the Illuminati and ambigrams.

If you wanna go chronologically, which you would, start with the Robot Books. Then you would probably want the Emipre books(probably my least favorite part), and finally dive into the Foundation novels. Heres a link that will probably explain some stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series.
I would give you the complete list, but I don't have the books at school. You might have a little trouble finding a few of the books because they are out of print. You should at least be able to find used ones.

I read the davinci code, and it was pretty good. It was in the unofficial pdf e-book format. :p

Yeah, it kinda went downhill when they got on the plane.

Battletech: Warrior Trilogy by Micheal Stackpole

Yes.



This man's got style. And I like it. Good novels.

Also: all of Asimov's short stories. By far his best creations.

1984, Animal Farm, the staples. I hear Herman Hesse's stuff is pretty good too...but that was a while back.

Really, Michael Chrichton and Neal Stephenson are both amazing, and have my full reccommendations.

For a quick light read try Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I couldn't believe how awesome such a short book could be. It's a quasi scifi/philosophical book, I could harp on about it for ages.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian is a really good one- Vietnam War
if you're looking for other war books, Catch 22 is good as well- I found it funny

of course, Lord of the Rings, Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is really good too (I never finished it, but that's because I didn't have the time, and when I did have the time, I had already returned the books)

Other than that, I can't really think of anything you would probably be interested in.

I can't believe I forgot 1984.

And Siddhartha by Hesse is a good read. Nice and short, too, if that's your thing.

I personally think The DaVinci Code is terribly overrated. It's entertaining, at times, but it certainly isn't as incredible as so many people seem to think it is.

Kurt Vonnegut.. Cat's Cradle is my personal favorite, but Slaughterhouse 5 is also awesome.

As far as fantasy books go, I used to be an avid Wheel of Time fan, but then around the 8th or 9th book I just got bored with them and haven't read any since.

You're all going to hate me, but I hated LotR.

But I love modern fantasy. For the most part it's not as drab and dry as Tolkien's material.

I didn't like LotR either. The movies were ok though.

You beat me to it. :p