Somebody recommend me a good book to read

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time



Non-traditional novel. Very easy read. Great book.

I was gonna suggest this too, been one of my favourite books since I was like 10 (its not a childrens book or anything though)

and 

Some oldies but some goodies....

post office by charles bukowski
naked lunch by william s. burroughs
fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson
slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut
the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

Some oldies but some goodies....


post office by charles bukowski

naked lunch by william s. burroughs

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut

the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

How's Bukowski? I'm starting Ham on Rye after I finish my current book - pretty excited. 

To add to the list:
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Plague - Camus
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut

1. The
Great
Gatsby
by
F.
Scott
Fitzgerald
2. The
Prince
by
Niccolo
Machiavelli
3. Slaughterhouse‐Five
by
Kurt
Vonnegut
4. 1984
by
George
Orwell
5. The
Republic
by
Plato
6. Brothers
Karamazov
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
7. The
Catcher
and
the
Rye
by
J.D.
Salinger
8. The
Wealth
of
Nations
by
Adam
Smith
9. For
Whom
the
Bell
Tolls
by
Ernest
Hemingway
10. The
Picture
of
Dorian
Gray
by
Oscar
Wilde
11. The
Grapes
of
Wrath
by
John
Steinbeck
12. Brave
New
World
by
Aldous
Huxley
13. How
To
Win
Friends
And
Influence
People
by
Dale
Carnegie
14. Call
of
the
Wild
by
Jack
London
15. The
Rise
of
Theodore
Roosevelt
by
Edmund
Morris
16. Swiss
Family
Robinson
by
Johann
David
Wyss
17. Dharma
Bums
by
Jack
Kerouac
18. The
Iliad
and
Odyssey
of
Homer
19. Catch‐22
by
Joseph
Heller
20. Walden
by
Henry
David
Thoreau
21. Lord
of
the
Flies
by
William
Golding
22. The
Master
and
Margarita
by
by
Mikhail
Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard
by
Kurt
Vonnegut
24. Atlas
Shrugged
by
Ayn
Rand
25. The
Metamorphosis
by
Franz
Kafka
26. American
Boys’
Handy
Book
27. Into
Thin
Air
by
John
Krakauer
28. King
Solomon’s
Mines
by
H.
Rider
Haggard
29. The
Idiot
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
30. A
River
Runs
Through
It
by
Norman
F.
Maclean
31. The
Island
of
Dr.
Moreau
by
H.G.
Wells
32. Malcolm
X:
The
Autobiography
33. Theodore
Rex
by
Edmund
Morris
34. The
Count
of
Monte
Cristo
by
Alexandre
Dumas
35. All
Quiet
on
The
Western
Front
by
Erich
Maria
Remarq
36. The
Red
Badge
of
Courage
by
Stephen
Crane
37. Lives
of
the
Noble
Greeks
and
Romans
by
Plutarch
38. The
Strenuous
Life
by
Theodore
Roosevelt
39. The
Bible
40. Lonesome
Dove
by
Larry
McMurtry
41. The
Maltese
Falcon
by
Dashiell
Hammett42. The
Long
Goodbye
by
Raymond
Chandler
43. To
Kill
a
Mockingbird
by
Harper
Lee
44. The
Dangerous
Book
for
Boys
by
Conn
and
Hal
Iggulden
45. The
Killer
Angels
by
Michael
Shaara
46. The
Autobiography
of
Benjamin
Franklin
47. The
Histories
by
Herodotus
48. From
Here
to
Eternity
by
James
Jones
49. The
Frontier
in
American
History
by
Frederick
Jackson
Turner
50. Zen
and
the
Art
of
Motorcycle
Maintenance
by
Robert
Pirsig
51. Self
Reliance
by
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
52. Another
Roadside
Attraction
by
Tom
Robbins
53. White
Noise
by
Don
Delillo
54. Ulysses
by
James
Joyce
55. The
Young
Man’s
Guide
by
William
Alcott
56. Blood
Meridian,
or
the
Evening
Redness
in
the
West
by
Cormac
McCarthy
57. Seek:
Reports
from
the
Edges
of
America
&
Beyond
by
Denis
Johnson
58. Crime
And
Punishment
by
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
59. Steppenwolf
by
Herman
Hesse
60. The
Book
of
Deeds
of
Arms
and
of
Chivalry
by
Christine
De
Pizan
61. The
Art
of
Warfare
by
Sun
Tzu
62. Don
Quixote
by
Miguel
de
Cervantes
Saavedra
63. Into
the
Wild
by
Jon
Krakauer
64. The
Divine
Comedy
by
Dante
Alighieri
65. The
Hobbit
by
JRR
Tolkien
66. The
Rough
Riders
by
Theodore
Roosevelt
67. East
of
Eden
by
John
Steinbeck
68. Leviathan
by
Thomas
Hobbes
69. The
Thin
Red
Line
by
James
Jones
70. Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn
by
Mark
Twain
71. The
Politics
by
Aristotle
72. First
Edition
of
the
The
Boy
Scout
Handbook
73. Cyrano
de
Bergerac
by
Edmond
Rostand
74. Tropic
of
Cancer
by
Henry
Miller
75. The
Crisis
by
Winston
Churchill
76. The
Naked
and
The
Dead
by
Norman
Mailer
77. Hatchet
by
Gary
Paulsen
78. Animal
Farm
by
George
Orwell
79. Tarzan
of
the
Apes
by
Edgar
Rice
Burroughs
80. Beyond
Good
and
Evil
by
Freidrich
Nietzsche
81. The
Federalist
Papers
by
Alexander
Hamilton,
John
Jay,
and
James
Madison
82. Moby
Dick
by
Herman
Melville
83. Essential
Manners
for
Men
by
Peter
Post
84. Frankenstein
by
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Shelly
85. Hamlet
by
Shakespeare
86. The
Boys
of
Summer
by
Roger
Kahn
87. A
Separate
Peace
by
John
Knowles88. A
Farewell
To
Arms
by
Ernest
Hemingway
89. The
Stranger
by
Albert
Camus
90. Robinson
Crusoe
by
Daniel
Dafoe
91. The
Pearl
by
John
Steinbeck
92. On
the
Road
by
Jack
Kerouac
93. Treasure
Island
by
Robert
Louis
Stevenson
94. Confederacy
of
Dunces
‐
John
Kennedy
Toole
95. Foucault’s
Pendulum
‐
Umberto
Eco
96. The
Great
Railway
Bazaar
by
Paul
Theroux
97. Fear
and
Trembling
by
Soren
Kierkegaard
98. Undaunted
Courage
by
Stephen
Ambrose
99. Paradise
Lost
by
John
Milton
100. Cannery
Row
by
John
Steinbeck

read some bret easton ellis if you're a slick fucker like me

How to kill a mocking bird

kafka on the shore

@kafka 
I like Bukowski for his ability to make the seemingly mundane interesting. The stories themselves are fairly slice of life but I think it's his writing style that keeps you hooked.


How did you find Murakami?
I've just finished reading A Wild Sheep Chase.

Some oldies but some goodies....


post office by charles bukowski

naked lunch by william s. burroughs

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut

the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

Damn brah, you know wassup... I've read three of those books in the last year... I've actually just finished 'Women' by Bukowski, it was the first book of his I've read and I think you're right, it's definitely his style that gets you hooked... Planning on reading post office next after I'm done with Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson