Learning To Be 100

Catcher in the Rye is a personal favorite.

The Little Engine That Could

Rey, you are the little engine that could.

Hmm, my favorite book is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. But the book that I think is the best is.....literally any Harry Potter book.

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Around the world in 80 days. One of my favorites.

Any harry Potter book? Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore

A personal favorite book of mine is Oswald Spengler's entertaining "Decline of the West".

Tales of a Traveler; I've got a copy from 1895 (this isn't special - first edition was in 1824 - I'm just saying it's old ). Most Americans have probably read small parts of it at some point. It's actually a collection of short-stories, but they tie together in some ways, and the heroes tend to be pretty relateable / teach great lessons about life.

My two favorite parts of the book are the story of Buckthorne (I guess the easiest summary is to call him the son of a wealthy man who grows up as a miscreant, going from one disappointment to another til he finally realizes his "great expectations"); and the story of the Italian Banditti. Many sub-stories are told throughout the entire book; one story leads into another story leads into another story. But one of the recurring characters in Banditti is a grumpy Englishman that the other characters (cultured Venetians) consider a brute. He's cold, rude, and unsociable; but in the end he saves the Venetians from a group of bandits.

Every character has a lot of well-developed layers, and every story covers a lot of different situations. As long as you understand the language (it isn't for everybody ), you might think about your own life and people you know as you read.

I cant argue with Don Quixote, it is in my top 5... My favorite is Call of the Wild.

I might even throw out il Conformista.

Dragonshy- It has cats in it?

Donkey Kong - I have a first edition of treasure island

"[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy."

Jared Diamond "Guns,Germs and Steel"

Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings by Ron Burgundy

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ender's game is probably my favorite book, i think its incredibly relatable and makes you question what the people surrounding you are actually trying to get you to do, even if you rebel, is that what they want?

If The Great Gatsby doesn't make your Top 10, you're clinically insane.

1984 is one of my faves as is The Outsiders by SE Hinton.

Too many to list, and I can't choose just one. Most lists I could make will probably include (not all exactly "books"): The Lord of the Rings, 1984, The Forever War, the Odyssey, Ivanhoe, Macbeth, Guns Germs and Steel, It, Cryptonomicon, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Art of War... I'd better stop here or I'll spend hours on this.

If The Great Gatsby doesn't make your Top 10, you're clinically insane.

if i could read it probably would

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