What's the best book you've ever read?

[j]

I'm incredibly bored, and i think i'm gonna go to Barnes & Noble.  Give me some suggestions.

[SanchoPanzo]

I'd also like some ideas

[amarain]

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.

[lauralynne]

Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroghes)
Anything David Sedaris
DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)

[amarain]

Oh yes, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is possibly the funniest book I've ever read.

[Jennaye]

Fiction:  Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (it's not sci-fi); Cannery Row or East of Eden by John Steinbeck; The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe (if you're looking for something a bit more eclectic)

Non-Fiction: Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain -- a fantastic social/cultural history book if you dig that kinda thing

[shiveringjenny]

The Bible-- it's the real "good news"

no, i'm just kidding-- that's a futurama quote.

read The Legend of Bagger Vance

[Kristih]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (very depressing...don't read it if you are bummed out)
anything by James Michner or Amy Tan is good, too.

[SanchoPanzo]

Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Keep the suggestions coming. my Amazon wish list is growing 

[i.am.me]

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