A good book.

[Zacharine]

The entire Dresden Files series.

Magical detective/problem solver in the middle of Chicago. Great plot, awesome characters and extremely nice character development combined with supernatural aspects and modern-day world.

For a bit older suspence/action kind of non-fantasy/non-scifi, I recommend the Icestation Zebra, by Alistair Maclean.

 

[Noamuth]

I hope they serve beer in hell by Tucker Max

Hell yes.

Normally something I wouldn't even contemplate picking up the sort of book that is advertised as 'fratire', but I got hooked on his stupid stories on his site and had to grab the book.

It is a damn good read. Great to just pick up, chose a story at random, laugh your ass off, then leave for a while. Or read the whole thing. Lots of re-reading value.

 

[Scorpioenigma]

Jim Butcher's Dresden files seris is my fav at the moment.
Also Sabriel by Garth Nix is worth a look ^^

 

[Iskenator67]

Prey. I can't remember who wrote it but it's good.

 

[Yassen]

Well my favourite book is Perfume: Story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind.

It's about a man named Jean-Baptisse Grenouille who is born in 18th century France. He has no scent of his own but is born with an almost super human sense of smell. He can pick up every scent from miles around, store them with his incredible memory, break them down into their most basic elements and then rearrange them to create scents that don't even exist; all in his head!

However, he becomes a serial killer because he becomes obsessed with creating the worlds best perfume. So he kills virgin girls and steals their scent to create a pheromone cocktail almost. It's the most incredibly deep, powerful, beautiful, painfully honest and disturbing fascinating book I've ever read.

If this has interested you, I'd suggest watching the 2006 movie first. It does great justice to the book but as always, the book is undeniably better.

 

[yeah_so_no]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I'm only a few chapters in, but one of the characters is an assassin who kills men who abuse their wives, and the other is a math teacher secretly rewriting a novel written by a very strange teenage girl who grew up on a commune and never went to school, in hopes that the revised version will win an award.

Pretty much anything by Murakami is a guaranteed good read, and so far, I'm enjoying this as much as "Kafka on the Shore" (a retelling of the Oedipus story set in modern day Japan, and with random pop culture gone wrong references, like Colonel Sanders being a pimp.)

 

[Gaderael]

Here's a good book I read when I was in high school. It's called "No Man's Land" by Kevin Major [http://www4.newcomm.net/kmajor/nmlbook.htm]. It's about the Newfoundland Regiment in the First World War at the Battle Of The Somme. It always stuck with me after I had read it. These kids, as they were only sixteen or seventeen years old, gave up so much to fight in a distant country. He doesn't hold any punches when writing about what happened there. I'd definitely recommend it as something different from fantasy horror.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Alot of people seem to be recommending the Dresden Files and I have to agree with them. One of the best series I have read. Also practically anything by David Eddings. He creates worlds filled with magic and gods and lots of fighting with bits of romance thrown in. They're very good reads.

 

[The Golden Sun]

"Paper Towns" and "Looking for Alaska", both by John Green, The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden, Anything by Terry Pratchett, "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (speaking of Dresden), "Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad. Those are all good.

 

[ben---neb]

"The Man who was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton. Amazing, surreal comedic masterpiece.

 

[Mezrev]

Currently reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. Haven't been this hooked to a book in a long time. I haven't even finished it yet and I already feel like I can safely say it to be my favorite book. Looking forward to reading the sequels already.

 

[Simalacrum]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Engleby' by Sebastian Faulks, very thought-provoking, and keeps you second-guessing until the ending chapters, with some excellent climactic moments - I highly recommend it!

I'm currently reading 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley, and although its for the purpose of my English A levels, I'm quite enjoying it

 

[Graves]

My fav book to this date is Narciss and Goldmund. Makes you think if you´re the rational and practical type of person or the dreamy and easy-going type.

 

[Ultress]

The Hannibel series is fairly good, just started Hannibel and like it so far.

Also just throwing it out there Anthem by Ayn Rand, a great short story

 

[rayman 101]

Catch-22 My favourite book about WII

1984 You've probably already read it, but it's still fantastic

His Dark Materials You'll get hooked from the first page.

Animal Farm You can almost say it's a prologue to 1984, but still a fantastic read

Fahrenheit 351 What I find really disturbing about this book, is the fact that the exact same thing is happening to society right now

A Clockwork Ornage It has one of the most interesting fictional slangs in literature history in my opinion

Eragon Like dark materials, very addictive

Lord of the Flies one of the best books about dessert islands

 

[Blow_Pop]

Prey. I can't remember who wrote it but it's good.

Michael Crichton
RIP
amazing author.

Timeline by Michael Crichton

 

[molester jester]

Favorite book of all time:

Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher, part 3 of the Codex Alera series, which is coincidentally also my favorite series with Butcher's Dresden Files a close runner up.

Good books:

Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward
The Reality Dysfunction by I forget

Other good series:

Nightside series by Simon R Green
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Temerraire series by Naomi Novik (I think, I'm spacing on the last name)

The Reality Dysfunction was written by Peter F. Hamilton - very good book

 

[Trotgar]

Lately I have been mostly reading Terry Pratchett and Michael Crichton.

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

Dracula. Just finished it, fantastic book (except that they demonise vamps =[ )

 

[IshFish]

Animal Farm
Day of the Trifids and
The Horus Heresy Series