Best Books You Have Read?

"The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", both written by Dan Brown.
Also, "Deception point" and "Digital fortress" are pretty good aswell.

Wash your mouth, the clasics are awesome!!!!...they just need some "work" to get it, and someitmes what the critics loves is not the plot, is the way is the history is telled...and when you read enoguh you can see that the last is really more important that the "plot".

My favorite books(WARNING I STUDY LITERATURE so...probably i am gonna be pretty classic, also i live in argentina, and love my local literature soooo...):

Don Quijote de la mancha for Miguel of Cervantes...yeah, a really HARD TO READ, and you need to make some homework before start reading(well in the defence of this book...is a parody, you need to know what is making fun), but when you surpass both of this, you get a wonderfull book, filled with interesting characters, and the SADDEST final that i read in a book...period.

The oldman and the sea ERenest Hemmingway: okay this is probably one of that DULL plots that you read it...but how is telled is more epic, more engagin, and more inspirational thing that you ever read...

Frankestein of Mary Shelley: you dont know how ripoff this book is, and when you read it you gonna know why...Who is the real monster???

Captain Pantoleon and the special service( good, that translation...) for Vargas Llosa, a really funny book the read, more when you read the "militare repport´s", and how the main character drive all this...

Martin fierro Jose Hernandez: okay this is one of my homeland, and is amazing...

The little prince Saint Exupery: a kid book that EVERYONE need to read... really go and READ IT NOW!!!!

Fight Club.

The Count of Monte Christo.

What is a book?

I don't read books -_-

Crime and Punishment

Well,I will give you series,characters and authors,it's easier that way,plus,it's sometimes hard to choose
-everything related to the Middle-Earth(begin with Silimarilion,end with the Lord of the Rings)
-A Song of Ice and Fire(To give you a sample,2 pages describing food then,BAM!Everything turns red and an entire army falls)
-The Wheel of Time(Haven't read any books of the series,but people tend to recommend it)
-Sherlock Holmes(Everything related)
-Agatha Christie(Nuff' said)

Eisenhorn trilogy

Arthur C. Clarke "Rendezvous with Rama"; Stanisław Lem "Tales of Pirx the Pilot"; Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher Saga; Raymond E. Feist Riftwar Cycle

The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erickson - best fantasy and book ever written

12 Years a Slave, Perks of Being a Wallflower

Many things from H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler & Robert Bloch.

Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher Stories and Saga
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire

Just one thing, some books are dull. But they are written in an awesome way that makes them mindblowing.

Most of the books i like are the european and russian classics that you will find easily, the one that really changed my life is marcus aurelius Meditations. Otherwise i am mainly into history, with stuff like Gibbon decline and fall of the roman empire, norwich history of byzantium etc. On this side and have a lot of books that will be hard to hear of, and sometimes impossible to get.

I would recommend to look not only for top books, but for top books by categories and also for life changing books. If you search on amazon, you can have very useful reviews and rcommendations.

At the moment i am reading Vienna, a nervous splendor, beautifully written, and if it counts as a read the zurich chess tornament of 1973.

Some environment books are must read also in my opinion, like Jensen Endgame, or sylvia earle sea change.

The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P Lovecraft and The Hobbit :3

The actual Elder Scrolls.

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1984 - George Orwell;
Hard to Be a God, The Doomed City, Prisoners of Power - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky;
Foundation Series, The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov;
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley;
Ringworld Series - Larry Niven;

Sherlock Holmes books , Jules Verne , the Song of Ice and Fire , the lord of the rings ,stephen king

When it comes to fantasy, I recommend exactly what trane88 recommended: The Witcher Stories and Saga + A Song of Ice and Fire. I would also recommend The Kingslayer Chronicles (though it may be hit or miss for some of you).

If you like hard SF, the best book I have read in the last ten years in this subgenre is The Martian by Andy Weir. It will be a movie too, but I recommend each and every one of you interested in hard SF read it.

Ready player One
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead

The Solitaire Mystery

I'm not much of a heavy reader but I'm really glad my sister bought me Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story when we were shopping at some random mall in Detroit. I highly recommend it and if I remember correctly, it's a short read.