Life of Pi is great

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Anything by Heinlin or Arthur C. Clarke.

also check out Brave New World if you haven't already.

currently reading Book VI of the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

 

Women by Charles Bukowski, and also The Post Office by Bukowski

Great books

 

car related (well superficially) and recent: The art of racing in the rain - garth stein

i love reading about adventures that push humans...that being said

endurance - alfred lansing - about the Shackleton voyage to the artic

into thin air - john krakauer - most of his books are good..this one is about everest

for light reading i would suggest the gulag archipelago

 

Anything by P. G. Wodehouse[/b]

". . . Aunt Agatha . . . chews broken glass and kills rats with her teeth."

". . . she was about six feet from the O.P. to the prompt side and fit into my armchair as if it had been manufactured by someone who knew that they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season."

 

Ender's Game FTW

 

Michael Crichton = Tech semi fiction writer
Tom Clancy = military political action espionage

Just start at the first book of author and read all the books

I just finished Next by Crichton and it was good

 

anything by Grisham (with a very few exceptions) or stephen king (i recommend The Stand, The Bachman Books, Needful Things.)

The Stand is one of those epic books...you feel like you're along with the people for their journey. almost indescribable.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was a great read.
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown was fun.
Prozac Nation and More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel are insightful.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is thought provoking, at very least.
We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand are must reads.

these should keep you busy for a while

 

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars by Max (son of Mel) Brooks.

 

i read these books:
none science fic:
Milagro beanfield war john nichols
monkey wrench gang ed abbey

science fic:
Enders game orson scott card
Illusion paula volsky
wr


kinda gory book
Aztec Garry Jennings


i listened to these audio books
the company
lake house
oryx and crake

 

For interesting, I'd go with "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy. While it does throw you in the middle of a series of books, it's highly entertaining, fairly fast paced, and easy to read. I picked up the full-size hardcover for $3.