[Cheshire Cat]

Fucking hell, the list I wrote in the other thread is gone. I shall try to recreate it.
Some of these might seem obvious but I really can't omit them.

Running With Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking, and Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs (this man's life is fascinating)

God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (this is worth the hype in my opinion)

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (simply amazing)

Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

Random Family by Adrian Nicole Blanc

Girls In Trouble by Caroline Leavitt

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Finally, if you're after something short and sweet that's still well-written, I'd recommend anything by Francesca Lia Block.

[no_ones_song]

Originally Posted by Riotfug

Shanghai Baby-Wei Hui
Out-Natsuo Kirino

if you like those type of books, you would LOVE Candy by Mian Mian. It reminds me somewhat of Shanghai Baby but better. I read Candy before I read Shanghai Baby and Shanghai Baby seemed like a cheap teen angst rip-off.

[Riotfug]

Originally Posted by no_ones_song

if you like those type of books, you would LOVE Candy by Mian Mian. It reminds me somewhat of Shanghai Baby but better. I read Candy before I read Shanghai Baby and Shanghai Baby seemed like a cheap teen angst rip-off.

Oh! I'll def check it out

[Destroyer]

slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut
mythology - edith hamilton

[bunnyclaw]

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
excellent book, really the best book i have ever read

[Perfect Drug]

Dostoievski - 'The Idiot'
Emile Zola - 'L'Assommoir'
And a play: Edward Albee - 'The Zoo Story'

[theoreticalchemist]

'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media' by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
'Capitalism and Freedom' by Milton Friedman
'The Road to Serfdom' by Friedrich August von Hayek
'The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1: The Spell of Plato' by Karl Popper
'The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath' by Karl Popper
'Natural Right and History' by Leo Strauss
'The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' by Max Weber

[Desiderata]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
A Certain Age - Rebecca Ray

[kkjuggy]

Communion- whitley strieber (scariest thing ive read in a while and a must read for twin peaks uber fans)

will there really be a morning-frances farmer
me talk pretty one day
dress your family in corduroy and denim
santaland diaries...all by david sedaris
peggy lee autobiography
exquisite corpse-poppy z brite (but i have a feeling everyone heres read that already ha.)

[punkrain]

Ooh, I didn't get in on this thread the last time.

Everybody says Lolita, but I highly recommend:

Despair - Vladimir Nabokov

It's difficult to get into because the narrator is just such a douchebag, but it's totally, totally worth it. My favorite Nabokov book, hands down.

Also:

Jennifer Government - Max Barry

or

Syrup - Maxx Barry

It's the same guy. He started his career with the double x to be funny, but everyone took him seriously so he dropped it. They're really fun, quick, post-modern, anti-corporation novels. I love his books, they're like my candy.

[betty blue]

atonement - ian mcewan
the magic toyshop - angela carter
dead babies - martin amis

[Violent Vixen]

"Please Don't Kill the Freshman: a memoir by Zoe Troupe

kinda more highschool level i guess but really sarcastic, and good.

[Dig For Fire]

Originally Posted by bunnyclaw

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
excellent book, really the best book i have ever read

not even murakami's best book, not even in his style really. It's more commercial and romantic i guess, i love it though.

[bunnyclaw]

Originally Posted by Dig For Fire

not even murakami's best book, not even in his style really. It's more commercial and romantic i guess, i love it though.

it was the first of his i read and ive read a few more since and realised how different this was, but i can't help but love it.

[Stella Maris]

Francesca Lia Block - Witch Baby;
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex;
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go;
Kyoichi Katayama - Socrates In Love;
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance [anything by him, he is great!].

[bunnyclaw]

Originally Posted by Stella Maris

Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance [anything by him, he is great!].

i started to read this, but then realised it was a sequel! i want to read a wild sheep chase first.

[sunday green]

i was loaned the windup bird chronicle the other week and am loving it - i can't believe he's such a prolific writer, i just want to spend all day with it so i can qualify to read all his other stuff - i think i want to read the one about the two women next?

also, house of leaves is amazing, though don't ever lend it cause you won't get it back

shout out to jd salinger while i'm at it - does anyone know of any good books ABOUT him? i don't want to read a hatchet job of such a great writer (for esme!)

[boygrinder]

Originally Posted by mandatorysuicide

Candy
It's about 2 Heroin Addicts. In love. Trying to stay alive, and still maintaining a job for junk. Really really good.

I just read this. Its about one heroin addict"candy". the guy isnt an addict...hates it... doesnt even understand it.He saves her.

[obscurelyric]

suppose this one is kind of obvious

umberto eco - the name of the rose.

anything by iain banks (weird present based stuff) or iain m. banks (same guy, sci-fi stuff)

[Holly Golightly]

We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson