A thousand splendid suns, amazing!

 

The Black Swan. Related to financial markets but applies to all walks of life. I don't go in to great depth to explain it, it's related to how basic statistics provide a fascinating explanation of many, many, many world events. Read up about it on your own, but just about every wise person I know enjoyed reading it, even gave it to my father for last father's day.

 

you'll laugh your ASS off reading "I hope they serve beer in hell" - Tucker Max.

 

That's what my boss said. That conversation led his wife to figure out why he wanted to name their unborn child Tucker if it was a boy. Quickly went from contender to...NO.

 

There were a few stories in I hope they serve beer in hell that had me in tears from laughing so hard.

 

Lot's of good suggestions.

Almost anything by Dan Brown, Ken Follett, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, James Patterson, Woods, Robert Ludum, etc.

To add something new and different to the thread.

The Fair Tax, and Fair Tax, The Truth by Boortz and Linder. I thought these books would bore me out of my skull but the were very good.

The Harry Potter series. It'll take a while to read them all but they are well worth reading. Not the kind of thing I normally read but I loved them.