Seeing the other guy's post on Life of Pi book, I realized that there are many great books out there to read. Now however, a quick search of the best books to read comes up with the ones that the critics love. After reading most of their plots on wikipedia, they tended to sound dull. What are your favorites?

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Any Dan Brown's Book. Seriously. I would start reading angels and demons, great book with grat movie ;)

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Philip K Dick is my favorite critically panned author. I'd recommend starting with A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

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I really depends on what you find interesting or want to read. Some people like scifi and fantasy, others like novels, some people only do non-fiction histories. It kind of comes down to taste. But here are some recommendations anyway:

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, anything by Ursula K. LeGuin, or Neil Gaiman, His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman, Martha Grimes if you like murder mystery, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett for witty sometimes profound comedy, The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is great action-packed fun, Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock for some magical realism, William Gibson (grandaddy of cyberpunk).

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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part I and II) - Miguel de Cervantes ||
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Marquez ||
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ||
On Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sábato

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is the best book about video games. If you like the Video game universe, and want to read an epic story, this is your book!

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I cant remember the name of it but i found it on the shelf in the Jarl of Whiterun quarters. It even made me a little better with axes!

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all of them, cause i read none of them.

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Dresden Files.

At least the first Vampire Hunter D book.

The Electric Church.

Singularity Sky.

Thats all that comes to mind at the moment.

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Vampire Hunter D!

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I was lucky enough to find the first book at a value village a few years back, been trying to get the other ones since but no credit card makes that really hard.

I know where they are sold though.

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Dawns Here Are Quiet by Boris Vasilyev

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Van's Story – Jump Into The Nothingness
(not released, due to highly explicit content)

1984

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Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (book one is Name of the Wind, book two is Wise Man's Fear, book 3 is taking too long to come out).

Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (book one is Way of Kings, book 2 will be out in about a month, and I can't wait).

Sunshine by Robin McKinley (Best vampire book ever. Vampire becomes friends with a girl named Sunshine, whose element really is the sun. She's also a baker that makes amazing sounding pastries. How can you not love that?)

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (There's time dilation in the books. I love the reason for the time dilation. I also love what the people of earth are able to do with the extreme time dilation).

Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant (Feed, Deadline, Blackout, as well as a smattering of short stories. Curing cancer and the common cold came at a price, the price being the zombie apocalypse. These stories take place 40 years after the zombie apocalypse, though, where people have been living with the reality of zombies for decades. So good. Plus, Mira Grant is hillarious).

The Leandros Brothers series by Rob Thurman (Cal is half monster, half human, all sarcasm. His big brother Niko is a hippie ninja genius. Apparently veganism, martial arts, and an IQ like Einstein's go together really well when you spend your life fighting monsters. My brother watches Supernatural, I keep trying to convince him to read these books because he'd get a kick out of them. No such luck, yet).

The first 3 I like enough that I've spent money on hardcovers, and have gotten at least some of them signed, even when it means spending hours in line at Comic-Con. The last two I would never have read except for getting free ones from Comic-Con and having nothing to do while waiting in line to get books signed.... but am ever so glad I did.

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Metro 2033 was awesome

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Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (My favorite book for sure)
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Ape and Essence - Also by Huxley
World War Z - Max Brooks
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Harmony - Project Itoh
Mardock Scramble - Tow Ubukata

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The name of the rose - Umberto Eco

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Have you heard of the Elder Scroll? It's just a book! (c)

Read H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" and "The invisible Man" those two are my favorites. Oh and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne, classic.

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That's a very hard question to answer. I've read a lot of good books from many different genres. Here are some standouts though:
-Dune
-The Illuminatus Trilogy
-Crime & Punishment
-The Name of the Rose
-Brave New World
-Animal farm
-The Idiot
-The Forever war
-Catch 22

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  • Ender's Game
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Definitely one of the books in the Dresden Files, but too hard to pick the favourite
  • Rainbow Six
  • Horns
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs

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Personally, I enjoyed reading "1984" by George Orwell. In a way, it just makes sense and has become really popular once more after the documents leaked by Edward Snowden showed that America spied on its own people and other countries. I do find it odd how it is bad that America does it (as a country) compared to companies. Most calls are saved, every purchase you make is stored and every website you visit gives you commercials that are tied to what you often visit.

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My favorites were written by authors:
Terry Pratchett;
J.R.R. Tolkien;
Andrzej Sapkowski;
Andrzej Pilipuk

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My favorite book is The Road, writted by Cormac McCarthy, it is an awesome book. Other good titles are I Have no Mouth And I Must Scream, Cell, It, Call of Cthulhu, 50 Shades of Grey. Ok that last one was a joke XD

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House of Leaves

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Mario Puzo - The Godfather

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"Hobbit" :D

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