What are your favorite books?

[Pezzz]

Who reads a book now a days? Well I do. Reading for me helps spur my creative thinking and influences my artwork a fair amount so give me the good stuff! I'm hoping to find some good reading material in this thread guys so don't disappoint.

Anyway here are a couple of my favorite books:
Valis by Phillip K. Dick
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Phillip K. Dick
The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand
Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand Edited by Leonard Peikoff
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
On Dreams by Aristotle
Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Meditations by Descartes

Honorable Mention:
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick

I read a pretty good amount, I used to read a fair amount of war books but now it's either philosophical writings or sci-fi, which explains the Phillip K. Dick. It would seem as if I have alot of favorite books but the list of books above were ones that pretty much changed the way I think and or spurred alot of creative thought.

[Gavin]

I don't really read fiction any more other than comics...Used to be huge into the Forgotten Realms books (NERD!)

Now though, anything by Chuck Klosterman.

Gav

[Ramseus]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently, by Douglas Adams

Yay, absurdist humor. I don't really read all that much though.


Speaking of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, in history last year we spent a week watching the 4 hour PBS documentary made out of the book (off of old vhs tapes that the teacher recorded himself). Interesting stuff indeed, I doubt I'd ever be able to make it through the enourmous book though.

[East]

I'm a Robert A. Henlein guy, myself. A few of my personal favourites:
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Starship Troopers
Stranger In A Strange LandThen of course there's the Ender book series by Orson Scott Card.

It's not all science fiction, though. The latest book I read (listened to) was Blink:The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking (http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TIME_000382&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes) by Malcolm Gladwell, which was an extremely enlightening book.

[blankslatejoe]

Lonesome Dove is probably my favorite.
The George R.R. Martin books, shogun, cuckoos next, and catch 22 are all up there too.

[Chasarsis]

Enders Game
Ender's Shadow
Just the Ender series actually. Its such awesome writing.

There's also David Eddings. The characters in the Tamuli and Belgariad are amazing, and there's so much sarcasm and funny that I can't help but love reading them.

I also loved Battlefield Earth, and many of Terry Brooks' works as well. That guy is an incredible fantasy story writer, even though his stories share certain similarities.

I should make time to read

[auctane]

Best book I have read:
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami - I highly recommend it to everyone who isn't scared of realistic violence.

currently reading:
Building Harlequins Moon - Its good so far, different perspectives.
Signal to Noise - not that far into it... seems ok so far.

recently read:
Halo series - The ones by Eric Nylund are good, however left me disappointed in the story of Halo 2 and Halo 3.
Eon - VERY good!! (I read because of the challenge at CGSociety, it caught my attention)

Going to read
Hitchhikers Guide series
*oh geez, how did i forget - The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Enders Game was awesome IMO, I started in on Speaker for the Dead and did not like all the jibberish names of the alien species... couldn't follow along. I read one of those D&D books... I liked it and started in on another, but though it sucked and haven't given another one a chance :P

[Beartastic]

I love pretty much everything by Gene Wolfe (most recently read The Knight/The Wizard and they're definitely the best books I've ever read) or Kurt Vonnegut.

I'd also have to include I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan.

[Deto]

hmm...

Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! and Nightwatch are in my top 5. Doombrigade (set in Dragonlance) are my favourite book of all.. err... Marian Keyes Last Chance Saloon.. and the last two of my top 5.. hmm.. Possibly Dan Simmons Hyperion and err.. Some moomin book probably :D

[Tiax]

hmm tough question but i think;
best of all ;
faust-goethe
crime&punishment-dostoyevski

some other excellent books;
And Quiet Flows the Don-Sholokhov
Any novel of Dostoyevski
Some short pieces of Edgar Allen Poe & H. P. Lovecraft
hmm cant remember more now , i'm way too choosy, anyway

sci-fi ;
1-Solaris - Stanislaw Lem


5-Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6-Ring World Series of Larry Niven
7-Neuromencer - William Gibson

i love aldous huxley&Douglas Adams but "brave new world" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" are hardly sci-fi to be honest. Thats the only reason they arent listed.

i probably forgot lots of great stuff , it's always hard to remember all when someone asks suddenly :P

[Aloscha]

Best book i´ve ever read is Eiji Yoshikawas - Musashi (Miyamoto) a true hystorical samurai story.
Further good books are Robert E. Howards - Conan (complet storys), Eiji Yoshikawas - Taiko, Dan Browns - Illuminati (german titel) and Andrzej Sapkowskis - Triology of Reinmar von Bielau.

[Ged]

Terry pratchetts discworld - all the books
douglas adams - hitchhikers guide books and dirk gentley books
raymond e fiest - talon of the silver hawk and that series of books, also magician is legendary
Stephen lawhead - song of albion series
The Bible - most amazing book and difficult book Ive ever read, been reading it for years and still trying to figure it out =P