agreeing with a lot of what others have said.

also, decline and fall by evelyn waugh and lucky jim by kingsley amis. they're funny.

my very faves are j.d. salinger and f. scott fitzgerald. swoon.

Cowboys: All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
Roman History: Julian, by Gore Vidal
American History and folklore: Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
War: All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque & A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway & The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
Mystical families and generations: House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende & One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Sad Russians doing bad things: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky & The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Philosphical and sad romantics: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
Funny people: Leave it to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse or practically anything else by him
The mafia: The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
Grumpy people/existentialism: Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre & The Fall, by Albert Camus
John Waters: Shock Value, by John Waters

Even if you don't like the categories I still recommend each one.
I loved Slaughterhouse Five, too.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Let's Spend the Night Together - Pamela Des Barres (okay, not a classic, but amazing )

YES.

His Illegal Self is ace.

Everyone should read American Psycho.

And I agree on Great Gatsby, any Hunter S Thompson, Douglas Coupland and Catcher in the Rye.

Also *mong face* Bell Jar, even if it is morbidly depressing. Junky and Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.

YES, YES, YES. and whoever said slaughterhouse 5. Can i add the idiot by dostoevsky, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.