Wow, quite a task.
I\'ll just write down some of my favorites books/authors and the genre it falls into
These books are in no particular order.
Darkness At Noon - Auther Koestler*, historical fiction. It\'s about a fictionary relovultionary in russia during the stalinist purges of the 1930s. It\'s based roughly off the experince of the author and his friends and particularly trotsky.
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vaunagut* - All of his stuff is good, but this good contains references to Naragansett Beer, and has one of the best lines in world in it.
The Stranger - Robert Calus* - Classic nihilism/existensialism book, plus the main character has traits in similar with the main character in Darkness at Noon
The Kool-Aid Acid Test* - Tom Wolfe - Great book about the Merry Pranksters and the start/peak of the "san fransico sceen"
The Leather Stalking Tales: (Deerslayer, Pathfinder, Praire, Last of the Mohicans, Pioneer) :: Tales of the first great westard expansion of america by james finmore cooper. Yes, sometimes the language is wordy and the characters very acrane, but read it for no other reasons than for the amazing description of western new york and the apliations.**
Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Ender\'s Children - Orason Scott Card. A great sci-fi series as long as you ingore the most recent books writen about the same time frame. Read these four first, then move on to the rest. I don\'t like any of the newer books because of how they degrade from the characters of the first 4.
*Spelling of title/author may not be exact
**This word should be: the appliachains, like the mountains, which I can\'t spell either.
