American Gods by Neil Gaiman and everything he has written.
Additional top Gaiman picks Neverwhere, Stardust, Sandman series, Anasi Boys.
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and everything, everything he ever wrote. 
Additional top  picks of his Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, Timequake  and so it goes.
Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as, One Hudred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera.
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Foundation series by Issac Asimov & everything else he wrote.
Going to Extremes by Joe McGinnis
Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury & everything else he wrote. (He loved librarians. I met him and received a huge hug from him!)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Light on Yoga by B. K. S Iyengar’s
Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Mystery & Detective stories any and all. LOVE THEM! I started with author Agatha Christy & Sherlock Holmes stories during my 8th Grade year and am currently into James Patterson. Fun reads and I love to solve “who done it.”
No Ordinary Genius: the Illustrated Richard Feynmann by Richard Feynmann
Once and Future King by T.H. White
Rama series by Arthur C. Clark
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Shadow series by Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
Native Son by Richard Wright
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by  Mark Twain
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The University of Success by Og Mandino
The Bible
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Trusting Soul by Brian Andreas
The Catcher In The Rye  by J.D. Salinger
Tuesdays With Morrie    by Mitch Albom
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino

The Bible
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Prayer for Owen Meaning by John Irving
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Tawny Many Trilogy, Robin Hobb
  Fool’s Errand
  Golden Fool
  Fool’s Fate
The Outlander Series, Dianna Gabaldon
  Outlander
  Dragonfly in Amber
  Voyager
  Drums in Autumn
  The Fiery Cross
  A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  An Echo in the Bone- on sale Sept. 22 (Woot!)
The Crown of Stars, Kate Elliott
  King’s Dragon
  Prince of Dogs
  The Burning Stone
  Child of Flame
  The Gathering Storm
  In The Ruins
  The Crown of Stars
The Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb
  The Assassin's Apprentice
  Royal Assassin
  Assassin’s Quest
The Jaran, Kate Elliott
  Jaran
  An Earthly Crown
  His Conquering Sword
  The Law of Becoming
A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin
  A Game of Thrones
  A Clash of Kings
  A Storm of Swords
  A Feast of Crows
  A Dance With Dragons – TBA
Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy, Margaret Weis
  Dragons Autumn Twilight
  Dragons of Summer Flame
  Spring Dawning
Dragonlance Legends Trilogy, Margaret Weis
  Time of Twins
  War of Twins
  Test of Twins
  Dragonlance:  Raistlin Chronicles, Margaret Weis
  The Soulforge
  Brothers in Arms
The Last Hour: The Legacy of Raistlin, Margaret Weis
The War of Souls Trilogy, Margaret Weis
  Dragons of a Fallen Sun
  Dragons of a Lost Star
  Dragons of a Vanished Moon

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My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult
The Girls- Lori Lansens
Odd Thomas- Dean Koontz
Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb
Crooked Little Heart- Anne Lamott
Brother Odd- Dean Koontz
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Odd Hours- Dean Koontz
The Road- Cormac McCarthy

The Color Purple, Alice Walker
City of Glass, Paul Auster
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
The Insanity Defense, Woody Allen
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Naked, David Sedaris
Music of Chance, Paul Auster

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation By Seamus Heaney
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Drawing Heat the Hard Way by Larry Matysik
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines
Night by Elie Wiesel

Dracula by Bram Stoker
 Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
 Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegge
 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
 John Adams by David McCullough
 PS I love You by Cecelia Ahern
 Anything by Nicholas Sparks
 All Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
The Lord of the Rings Triology, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
 On the Road and The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac
The Shining and The Stand, by Stephen King
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Ciderhouse Rules and Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
One Life at a Time Please, by Edward Abbey
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Villa Incognito, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Another Roadside Attraction, Still Life with Woodpecker and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, all by my favorite author, Tom Robbins!

The Pact by Jodi Piccoult
Salem Falls by Jodi Piccoult
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Against Medical Advice by James Patterson
The Shack by William Paul Young

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Everything by David Sedaris
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings  by J. R. R. Tolkien
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Voyage for Madmen   by Peter Nichols
The book of Job in the Bible
Crime and Punishment   by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In Hazard   by Richard Hughes
The Children’s Blizzard    by David Laskin
Bend Sinister    by Vladimir Nabokov
Eastern Approaches  by Fitzroy Maclean
The Immense Journey   by Loren Eisely

A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Magic Flute and Cosi fan tutte by Mozart
The Crocodile on the Sandbank or any other book in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Room with a View by E. M. Foster
House of Many Shadows or any other modern Gothic novels by Barbra Michaels
Tempest Tossed or any other book by Robertson Davies
Daughter of Time and Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
The Nonpareil or any other book by Georgette Heyer
The Moonspinners and My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (especially The Drawing of the Three)
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Brain Droppings by George Carlin
Continuidad de los parques by Julio Cortázar
Los censores by Luisa Valenzuela
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson
The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Naked Economics by Charles Wheeler
 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
 Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

I am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
Rogue Warrior, Richard Marcinko
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich August Hayek
The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
Three Nights in August, Buzz Bissinger
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Treasure, Clive Cussler
Underboss, Peter Maas

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

White Rat: A Life in Baseball, Whitey Herzog
Lies My Teacher Told me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45, Stephen E. Ambrose
Truman, David McCullough
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, Jay Winik
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times, Donald T. Phillips
Teacher Man: A Memoir, Frank McCourt
Angels and Demons AND The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Anything by John Grisham