Recommend me some books!...Please.

Friends tell me that this is good but I've never had the time to read it.

Maybe something from Christopher Paolini? I like "Eragon"

Malazan - Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson, if you haven't read it already. It is the most epic story I've ever read!

Also, the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, for the sheer awesome sense of humor.

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman, I know the Golden Compass was a pathetic movie, but the books are pretty amazing.

And, if you're into novelized history, the Alexander series. The author was Italian, but I can't recall his name. The Alexander movie was based on the books. Movie was terrible, books were pretty neat.

Will post more suggestions later, but it would help if you could share your interests and the books you've already read... :)

The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.

Speaking of books that were made into movies, have you read the Name of the Rose? The movie only retains the simple detective plot, but the book had quite interesting discussions on medieval philosophy.

the books from sebastian fitzek

LotR series, A Song of Ice and Fire series, Witcher series, Eragon series.

these are really great.

Ender's Game

Slaughterhouse-Five,
The Sirens of Titan,

or anything else by Kurt Vonnegut, really.

Maybe something from Masterton(horror)? Or Solaris by Lem (SF).

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History :D

If you are looking for something funny you should read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Something light would be the novel V for Vendetta.
I recently read Zeno's Conscience that is nice.
Otherwise there are more demanding titles like those wrote by Hart Crane.

I read a ton of fantasy series. Song of ice and fire by george martin is very good at the start but starts to slow down a bit in the most recent two books. George Martin is a fantastic writer and some of his older stuff is great too. I love anything by Brandon Sanderson and joe Abercrombie. Right now I'm reading Steven eriksons Malazan book of the fallen which is pretty good as well. Night angel trilogy is good. I also enjoy Patrick rothfuss, n k jemison, Peter Brett, Robert redick just to name a few

If you're looking for some of those "What, I can't believe you never read X" books, here are a few:

• Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
• The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
• Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell
• Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov
• A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess

If you really like you some SF, then maybe these (although not all strictly-speaking SF):

• The Stars My Destination: Alfred Bester (my personal fav)
• Ubik: Philip K. Dick (although you can basically get anything of his)
• The Dispossessed: Ursula K. la Guin
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Robert A. Heinlein
• Gateway: Fredrick Pohl
• Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes
• I Am Legend: Richard Matheson
• The Forever War: Joe Halderman
• Cities in Flight: James Blish (4 novels, but frequently published as one)
• Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut

And then, some relatively recently published novels that I've liked -

• Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
• John Dies at the End: David Wong
• The Long Earth: Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The City & the City: China Miéville
• Blackout/All Clear: Connie Willis

Enjoy! If you take any of these recommendations, please let me know; I'd be crazy interested in some bookchat!

Huxley - Brave New World

The Twilight series.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West. Young readers: Harry Potter is a given, and Artemis Fowl. good too

You want fantasy teenage book? Discworld series by Pratchett
You want fantasy adult book? Witcher series by Sapkowski
You want sci-fi teenage book? Hunger Games series by Collins
You want sci-fi adults book? Foundation series by Asimov, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner)" by Dick

The Kingkiller Chronicles series, by Patrick Rothfuss. Two out of three books are out (waiting patiently for the last one to come out). First is Name of the Wind and the second is Wise Man's Fear. My favorite fantasy books thus far, on par with Among Thieves, by Douglas Hulick, which is also part of a trilogy, waiting for the second book to come out now.

I have also immensely enjoyed reading The Night Angel trilogy, by Brent Weeks. First book is Way of Shadows, second is Shadow's Edge and third is Beyond the Shadows. Fantastic epic fantasy tale.

If you are into more typical epic fantasy, though just as good, The Dark Elf trilogy and the Icewind Dale Trilogy have a special place in my heart and I recommend these with all my heart.

All these books are fantasy.

Oooo, so many great recommendations here. I will re-read 'Hart's Hope' by Orson Scott Card at least twice a year. It's quite overlooked and well worth the time!

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss. I can't belive no one recomended this yet, they're some of the best books i've ever read. Also the Lyonesse Trilogy by Jack Vance.

I would recommend any of the Sergei Lukyanenko series or novels. I'm currenty rereading the Watch series.

• "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.
• "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London.
• "The Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby, Jr.
• "Les misérables" by Victor Hugo.
• "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
• "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" by Vladimir Nabokov.
• "Endless Night" by Agatha Christie.
• "Raised from the Ground" by José Saramago.
• "The Collector" by John Fowles.

Fantasy: A Song of Ice and Fire has already been recommended a bunch, but I'll add my voice to the choir. Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy (and the two that follow it, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man) are worth a read. The Pratchett recommendation is a good one, and I really enjoyed Good Omens, which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. Mogworld (by Yahtzee Croshaw, of Zero Punctuation fame) was a lot of fun, but may not land quite as well if you don't have a history with MMORPGs. I liked what I've read of Terry Brooks' Shannara series, but that was years ago and I never got too deep into it.

Sci-Fi: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein are both phenomenal. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang is a collection of mostly sci-fi short stories that is often brilliant. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is one I find myself revisiting every few years. I guess a lot of Vonnegut's stuff is vaguely sci-fi-ish, and I'll take any excuse to recommend his work if you're not already familiar with it.

Try something more "classic" like E.A.Poe or little less "classic" like C.Bukowski :)