Book Recommendations?

First of all: I dig the authors you listed, so we have similar taste.

Love in the Time of Cholera
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Siddartha
-Herman Hesse

Evolution
-Stephen Baxter

Sirens of Titan*
-Kurt Vonnegut

Bluebeard*
-Kurt Vonnegut

Ecotopia
-Ernest Callenbach

Stranger in a Strange Land
-Robert Heinlien

Game of Thrones Series**
-George R.R. Martin

*You may have read these already but they are my two favorite KV books.

**If you are into fantasy, some are and some aren’t

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I love Vonnegut, Orwell, and Huxley. But does anybody get the impression Ayn Rand is a bit too selfish?

Cloud Atlas and Life of Pi spring to mind as recent movies that are even better reads.

@robbiekarlson, I’m not trying to be a downer, and I like posts like this, but there are already 100 different book discussions. Make good use of the search function! You could always bump an old book discussion as well. Hope you find a good book.

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@robbiekarlson,

Vladimir Nabokov is also brilliant if you haven’t read already; Lolita and Despair are his best I think.

The Outsider/Stranger by Albert Camus is another good one

Any Franz Kafka, I know someone already mentioned the Trial but I rate all his stuff very highly.

Any James Joyce. I’d start with Dubliners or or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Leave Ulysses until you are familiar with Joyce. Enter into Finnegan’s Wake at your own peril XD

@robbiekarlson,

Haruki Murakami, It’s fiction but very very nice :-}

Considering your taste in science fiction, I’d humbly suggest “Roadside Picnic” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is short and juicy, definitely a page turner, but also includes very compelling science fiction concepts. Unlike just about any other book, it’s severely underrated.

im with valeria on murakami, his works are absolute genius. also going with orwell’s 1984 dystopian novel: fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury

Just a suggestion but ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a really good classic that I really enjoyed, plus there’s a new film version coming out soon.

I would have said ’1984′ or ‘The Doors of Perception’ – but I’m guessing you’ve already come across them as a Orwell and Huxley fan.

Also another book which doesn’t take long to read that I absolutely adore and would suggest to everyone is ‘The Alchemist’ by Paolo Coelho. It’s a great story on the surface with some really inspiring deeper meaning.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

short but one of my favs people seem to forget about.

@robbiekarlson, celestine prophecy- James Redfeild <3