R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms series featuring Drizzt Do'Urden.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It is the 1st part of a 4part series - all are well worth reading. The first book is being told as a framework-series (like the Canterbury tales), and I loved every minute of it. YMMV of course.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Good, because that was going to be my next book store purchase.

Fiction: The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair

Non-Fiction: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded -- Simon Winchester

Biography: Alexendar Hamilton -- Ron Chernow

Catcher In the Rye

I'll chime in with Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why. Best history book I've ever read...by far.

i thought the jungle was non-fiction?

^--The Jungle is a book about fictional characters

Shogun for me

Loved this as well, but damn it doesnt get much more depressing...

I would have to say Memoirs of a Geisha.

The Diamond Age, or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Just because I recently read it... The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hey now, the Bible is 66 of the best in one convenient package!


For me, the one book that I keep coming back to for the past 30 years is Watership Down.

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Baudolino, Umberto Eco

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

I'm going to go with The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. It's a story about a boy who grows up in South Africa during WWII, and the effects of the apartheid. It made a huge impression on me when I first read it long ago, and still enjoy it decades later.



And thanks, I added Replay to my Amazon wishlist...