Im gonna start reading some books, suggest em.

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LegionOfMany

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Let's get the obvious bit out of the way, shall we?

READ HARRY POTTER.

Anyways- Another good book would be Gideon the Cutpurse.
 
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20,000 leagues under the sea, by Jules Verne
or anything else by Verne if you like victorian pseudoscience/ steam-punk you cant go wrong, plus they named the first nuclear submarine after his creation so you know...

Dickens is always a good choice

So is Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle

If you are a historical fiction fan might I suggest Of gods and generals, and its companions, The killer angels, and The last full measure. Here is the fun part, the middle was written by Micheal Shaara, the prequel and the sequel were written by his son Jeff Shaara
 

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Wes1180 said:
So soon I'm gonna get a kindle and I'd like some suggestions for books to read, it doesn't matter what genre it is, I wanna see what I like. It doesn't have to be kindle specific so don't think of that as a problem :D

This probably has been done loads so yeah...

P.s. Please, no hate on the kindle or people's suggestions, Thanks :D
The Shadow of the Wind. it is amazing! I cant even decribe the plot. You would have to just read it.
 

Geekosaurus

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Any of the Sherlock Holmes novels or short stories. They're written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - if you were wondering.
 

BrionJames

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
& The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

Read those and you'll be all right in my book!
 

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Starship Troopers. Awesome book that is arguably responsible for Space Marines and Space Bugs.
 

The-Jake

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Most of my favorites (Callahan's, Dexter (only the first one), Discworld, Dresden Files, Wizard of Oz (only the ones by L. Frank Baum) (MUCH better than that stupid film), Robert Asprin's Myth, Narnia, Rick Cook's Wizardry (excluding the first one), Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time) have already been suggested multiple times, so let's see what I can add...

How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman. Two career editors teamed up to make a guide to avoiding the writing mistakes that have been made by thousands before you. If you keep making mistakes, at least you'll be making original ones. Should be mandatory reading for anyone who plans on writing anything, and even if you don't, they have a wicked, sometimes anarchic, sense of humor. Examples:
Any of the following crimes against fiction can prevent the publication of your novel. Committing several will prevent the publication of novels by anyone whose name is similar to yours, just in case.
Sometimes a writer knows where she wants to end up but can see no plausible way to get from A to Q. Instead, she announces "Q!" in a confident tone, often following up with some vague comments about "long conversations had led to this," or "fevered negotiations had been required, and somehow all issues were finally resolved," or, worst of all, "It was as if John had somehow turned into a different man." If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.
Suddenly! she spotted Jack, and her heart melted—like a heart that had been frozen, but then was subjected to heat.
Congratulations! If you have been following along, you should now have progressed from being merely an unpublished novelist to being a novelist who is completely invulnerable to publication.
There's also Understanding Comics and Making Comics by Scott McCloud. If you like comics and/or enjoy a discussion of theory and design for its own sake, they're a treat. I found them deeply insightful. He also wrote Reinventing Comics in between those, but, uh... opinions of that one are much more variable. (Now that I think about it, I'm not sure you can read graphic novels on a Kindle.)

John Dies at the End by David Wong. I didn't understand this at the time, but now I feel it's like looking inside the head of someone suffering from severe schizophrenia. Real-world schizophrenia, not Hollywood multiple personality dreck. It's some of the best horror I've read (though I haven't read a lot of horror), yet it's also some of the funniest lowbrow humor I've read, and somehow those two aspects mesh rather than clash. I've seen it described pretty accurately as "Harold and Kumar Punch out Cthulhu".

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When you feel ready for an epic, try reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Warning: Its a really hard read.
Make that the Abridged Moby Dick. The unabridged version is 50% The Great American Novel and 50% no-longer-scientifically-accurate marine biology lesson.

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The great gatsby...I'm supposed to read that for English Lit. I take that it's good?
No. No, it's not. Pointy-headed intellectuals like to masturbate about it, but it's just not well edited.
 

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For the classics:
The Odyessy
Dante's Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice

For modern:
Harry Potter Series
The Warrior's Heir (the whole Heir series)
Artemis Fowl Series

Just a few to start off with.
 

WordyLAnn

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"Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier --- no it's not a romance novel... entirely. It's good, I promise.
"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman
"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy

There's more but I'm lazy.
 

Brownie101

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Anything by Terry Pratchett (Though I'm quite partial to the Death series (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music etc.) myself.

Also Stephen King's The Dark Tower. It's a good series.