Use this thread to recommend books to people.

Artemis Fowl series: Faeries and technology meet a mastermind, his enormous fortune and bodyguard.
Marcus Aurelius' meditations: About the stoic philosophy. http://www.sonshi.com/meditations.htmlThe Critique of Pure Reason:Rather than choosing between our senses and our thoughts Kant argues that one must accept both. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16p/

I just finished reading and highly recommend 'Tower of Glass' by Robert Silverberg.

The book ends up being way different than you expect it to be (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).... Highly recommended!

Sushi For One? by Camy Tang

The Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi Ono

Goth by Ostuichi(the novel version)

lol books r for nerds...your wasting you're life by reeding books...

I used to read a lot when I was younger, but I stopped reading on a regular basis once I began to understand how to use the internet. Fortunately, I am working on reversing that process now. I am spending increasingly less time online, using the computer mainly for productive purposes (working on websites for people, schoolwork, math-related fun, etc.)

The last book I read was a collection of Tolstoy's short stories, of which my favourite was Master and Man. I thought it was a lovely story, and was made even better by the fact that I read it whilst staying at a resort in the snowy Alps.

I really liked "A Clockwork Orange." I enjoyed learning Nadsat :P
The story has really stuck with me.

George Zebrowski: “Sunspacers” trilogy

Dean Koontz: “Watchers”, “Strangers”, ”One door away from heaven”, his books about Christopher Snow and Odd Thomas, and nearly everything else he's written

Lois Lowry: “The giver”

Sylvia Engdahl: “The far side of evil”, “Enchantress from the stars”

Warren Murphy & Molly Cochran: “World without end”

Julia Ecklar: ”Regenesis”

Stephen King: ”Pet sematary”, ”The fire starter”

Frank Schatzing: ”The swarm”

Isaac Asimov: ”Nemesis” (+ all his short story collections)

Larry Niven: ”The Draco Tavern”

Not specific books but authors: Dean Koontz, Alan Dean Foster and Terry Pratchett

Hermann Hesse
Beneath the Wheel
Demian
Steppenwolf
The Glass Bead Game

Ray Fracalossy
Tales From The Vinegar Wasteland

Stephen King
Carrie
IT
Pet Sematary
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Natsuo Kirino
Out

Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Natsume Soseki
Botchan
Kokoro

Koushun Takami
Battle Royale

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Susan Pfeffer: Life as we knew it

An asteroid hits the moon, causing it to go into a new orbit closer to Earth. The result: Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic ash and famine.

house of leaves by mark z danielewski is my favorite book EVER
and i suggest it to just about everyone i meet! if you like weird/trippy horror
stuff it'll be right down your alley.

Richard Calder my favorite author that nobody's heard of
Dead Girls
Dead Boys
Dead Things
Cythera
Frenzetta
Malignos
Lord Soho
Impakto
The Twist
Babylon

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

You're doing yourself a disservice by not reading this series. Every book is like a brick chocked full of squee-inducing epic fantasy awesomeness. Head splitting? Check. Incest? Check. Loli? Check. Loli princess who gives birth to dragons *in* her husband's funeral pyre, which she then uses to utterly PWN? Check. But it's more than that. It's deeply written, engrossing, beautifully characterized and an utterly amazing series of books. I've never had such a pleasurable reading experience in my adult life.

And I really want to read them again right now, but I have way too much stuff that's more important. =/

Nightwatch
Daywatch
Twilight Watch
Last Watch

by Sergei Lukyanenko

The story takes place in modern day Moscow and revolves around a confrontation/conspiracy between two opposing supernatural FBI styled groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an organization dedicated to policing the actions of the Dark Others—and the Day Watch, which polices the actions of the Light Others. Normal humans are unaware of these organizations.

Definitely check out:

The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
I've only read the first book so far, but it's about an orphan kid that lived on the streets until he got taken under the wing of THE MOST feared assassin in the land. The book basically follows his life as a kid on the streets, to a young teen assassin apprentice, and an adult trying to prove himself to his master; all intertwined with a very good romance/drama undertone.

Welcome to the NHK by Tatsuhiko Takimoto (i'm talking about the novel)
A lot of you should be familiar with this title. How the anime was stemmed off of the manga, the manga actually stemmed off of a novel. It's about a hikikomori trying to re-enter society while being pushed forward/tutored by a cute girl with suspicious intentions.
note: sadly this book is out of print. I was lucky and found a copy in good condition off of ebay. However, there is a free scan on the internet. Just google "Welcome to the NHK novel scribd."

Right now I'm reading a book called "Nobody Nowhere" by an author named Donna Williams who I believe has HFA. She talks about her childhood & young adulthood on the autism spectrum. It's very good. She also has another book called "Somebody Somewhere" which is a follow up to "Nobody Nowhere," which I can't wait to read. I'm finding a lot of myself in her book. It was written in the 90's, but I still find it relevant.

Also, for anyone who loves urban fantasy-type series, Kim Harrison's "The Hollows" series, & "Laurell K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series are great. Plus, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles are great for anyone who loves vampire novels

I was lucky to find it at the book store a few months ago. It was shelved with the manga at the very end of the bottom shelf so probably nobody even knew it was there. I like that it was actually written by a hikikomori and at the end he admits that nothing's changed and that he obsesses about the story he wrote. I get like that whenever I write something.

L J Adlington: "Cherry heaven" and "Diary of Pelly D"

Ira Levin's This Perfect Day is a must read for any fan of dystopia. it's about a "perfect" society and one man who goes by his nickname instead of his nameber, doesn't have any close relationships, and becomes a part of a resistence who are found out because of him. after his capture he lives a drugged life until one day his treatment runs late and he is able to escape.

R D Henham's Dragon Codex series. (Red/Bronze/Black/Brass/Green/Silver/Gold dragon codex.

Lisa Trumbauer: A practical guide to dragons

The dragonology books.

Robin Wayne Bailey's Wyvernwood trilogy

I downloaded a .pdf file of Welcome to the NHK and it worked pretty good. It's a shame it's so hard to find because I'd a phyical copy.

I recommend A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.

I like that book a lot too! I also recommend George Orwell's 1984, Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (difficult book to read but the ending makes it more than worthwhile) and JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Nevil Shute: "On the beach":

Kathy Hoopmann: "All dogs have ADHD" & "All cats have Asperger syndrome"

John Marsden's "Tomorrow" series

Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters

If you know spanish, The articles and writings of Rafael Barret

Leo Tolstoy's Ana Karenina

Friedich Nietzche's Ecce Homo and Thus spoke Zarathustra.

I got to read more books.