Hannah Montana, one of the current classics.

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Thomas Sowell:Basic Economics, Applied Economics, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Ethnic America
Richard Miniter: Disinformation
Peter Schweitzer: Do as I Say, Not As I Do
Orson Scott Card: Ender series, Shadow series, Empire
Robert Asimov
Victor Davis Hanson: Mexifornia
Philip K. Dick
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals
Douglas Adams
Robert Spencer: Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades
Geoffrey C Ward: The War
A.J. Langguth: Union 1812
Max Brooks: WWZ
Bernard Goldberg
David McCullough: 1776
Stephan King
Robert Asprin
Piers Anthony
Anne Rice

These are my favorites from the last few years, I used to only read sci-fi or horror. I've expanded a little. Still not too into classics. I have to help my teenage son get through those too much for me to really enjoy them yet.

Color, you reminded me.

Bernie Goldberg
Douglas Adams
Anne Rice

I'll also throw in John Ringo, though his books are really just quick reads.

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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand, Anthem.

George Orwell
Albert Camus
Anne Rice
Ann Coulter
Stephen King
Leon Trotsky
Robert Conquest

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Definitely never thought I'd see those two on the same list


PS-- BOOO Ayn Rand!

Any Rand rocks and you know it!

definitely Philip K. Dick, Bill Bryson, Mark Twain, Arthur C. Clarke, and whoever wrote Catch 22 (I can't remeber his name right now)

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"What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refuse to fly them?"
"We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied.
"We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean we? Since when are you on their side?"
"If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country
Sebastian Fitzek - The Therapy
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits
Celia Rees - Pirates
Laurell K. Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures
Frank Schätzing - The Swarm
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Suspicion
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Joseph Heller


FALSE!

Camus. Who else is there but Camus?

Okay, many others, as I am adictedto reading, but i am pretty ruk right now, so my fav remains Camus


AH

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

I would think that even if you don't agree with her ideas you'd still be able to enjoy her books. I like 'em anyways.

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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand, Anthem.