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I just finished a novel called The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which was pretty good, for a novel anyway, but now I need something else to read!

Any suggestions? Non-fiction, fiction, doesn't matter.

What are your favorites?

Well I read the complete Harry Potter Series and its pretty good.

It also teach you tolerance as well.

Blood Meridan or Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

My sister's keeper By Jodi Picioult, was a good book, really liked it. started me on a cancer fixation.

Ender's Saga ( Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow) by Orson Scott Card. Futureistic sci-fi i really liked.

Stranger in a Strange Land ( Robert Hinlingn is the author.... and that last name is mispelled) is a well known Sci-Fi book, Human born adn raised on mars comes to earth and becomes a messiah like figure ( was a very interesting book)

I'm a big fan of Mark Twain. I recommend his short stories, especially "Journalism in Tennessee", "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper", "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut", "A Double Barrel Detective Story", and "The Stolen White Elephant".
I think those are some of the funniest humor stories of all time, but that's just me.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

The information here is very insightful, and frightening.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

Someone, please. Vouch for it's greatness.

Just finished:
The Custom of the Country-Edith Wharton
The Mirror Maker-Primo Levi

Current:
A Crocodile on the Sandbank-Some mystery writer; don't feel like checking
Sister Wendy on Prayer-Sister Wendy Beckett
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil-Hannah Arendt
The Old Curiosity Shop-Charles Dickens

I'm currently reading Tuesdays with Morrie which is pretty good book to read when you get a chance to do.

What happened to Lani Garver. I've read that more than any other book.

Right now I'm reading an Omnibus called The Last Chancers. The plots in the books contained within is about like the plot from the movie The Dirty Dozen. In it, a bunch of war criminals are given one more chance to try to good and that's by completing a suicide mission. Whoever lives through the mission is given a pardon for there crimes. I'm about halfway through and it's pretty interesting thus far.

I have MANY books that I like. I used to LOVE the Warrior Books by Erin Hunter, but ever since the Power of three books came out, I decided not to buy them anymore because the plot suddenly got bad. In my opinion at least...

I'm reading this book called "A Veil of Roses". It's about this girl from Iran that comes to America to see her sister and to find a husband because of an arranged marriage. She gets a culture shock while she's there too. Yes, it's fictional.

It's interesting to think of how other countries might look at my country, the USA.

I also like this book Mutant Message Down Under, which is about a doctor from the US and comes to Austrailia for a business trip. She suddenly finds herself stranded with a clan of Aborigines and they show her the ways of their culture. It's interesting to read if you like learning about other cultures. Yes, it's a fictional story, but it's still cool.

Any of Libba Bray's books. Especially A Great and Terrible Beauty and the rest of that trilogy.
They are amazing, especially if you are a girl. They are greatness.
I highly reccomend all of them.

I just finished the Eisenhorn Omnibus........ and it was very good

The Eisenhorn series of novels:

Xenos
Malleus
Hereticus
(These books are collected in The Eisenhorn Omnibus)


In the grim far future, the Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down daemons, aliens and heretics with uncompromising ruthlessness.

Written by Gaunt’s Ghosts creator Dan Abnett, this volume charts the career of Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn as he changes from being a zealoyus upholder of the truth to collaborating with the very powers he once swore to destroy!

Part detective story, part interplanetary epic, Xenos, Malleus, Hereticus and the two linking stories are amongst the very best tales ever told by the Black Library.