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yes... i forgot about that one... its supposed to come in the mail today... Strappologists monthly!! ! i cant wait

I like non-fiction books. A few good ones I recently read are:

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman - It's about how our medical establishment is so bent on doing things its way instead of listening to alternatives, and how harmful it is to the patient.

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda by Yaroslav Trofimov

Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile - Don't see the movie, Hollywood completely botched it

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

It can get a little slow in some parts, but it's mostly fast-paced.

Light, but quality reading: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

Heavy reading: All of Dostoyevski's main works, except that one mistranslated as 'The Possessed,' the main other 19th century Russian authors (Tolstoi, Chekhov, Turguenev, etc), 'Demian,' 'Steppenwolf'.

Historical fiction: Roger Martin du Gard's 'The Thibaults' and 'The Summer of 1914,' 'The Death of Artemio Cruz', 'I, the Supreme' (but you have to read up a bit on the context first for it to make any sense)

History: anything by Mark Mazower, Friederich Katz

autobiography: 'Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman?' very funny autobiography by a Nobel Laureate in physics.

'dark': Poe (esp. The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death), 'The Chants of Maldoror'

plays: 'King Lear' and other Shakespeare, Sartre.

others: 'Neverending Story'

i can't believe i forgot this one-- i refer to it all the time!

and as for classic literature, i usually dislike a lot because it is so depressing-- like ethan frome, tess of the d'ubervilles, the good earth, ect... but i do like The Jungle by upton sinclaire.

It's one of my favourites. My copy's over 800 pages long but I didn't find that intimidating. Well...hardly.

AS books:

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome
Tony Attwood's AS books
The Blue Bottle Mystery

Other Disability books:

The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Down Syndrome)
Karen and With Love From Karen (Cerebral Palsy)
The Gene That Makes You Smell Like a Fish (Various genetic conditions, resulting in various degrees of disability. Discussions include Fragile X and other chromosomal disorders.)

Garfield's Guide To Everything.

I got that book for christmas but i havnt started reading it yet. Im reading Blaze by Stephen King at the moment.

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens.

Phillip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
Carolyn Ives Gillman - Halfway Human
Allen Dean Foster - A Call to Arms, The False Mirror, The Spoils of War
The Nag Hammadi scriptures

The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
World Without End, by Ken Follett

Dvorak in Love, by Josef Skvorecky

more young adult stuff--
the books of pellinor: the naming, the riddle, the crow and (forthcoming) the singing.

and faerie wars series: faerie wars, the purple emperor, and ruler of the realm
(gotta love a ex-physicist turned bank robber)

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. If that doesn't tickle your fancy perhaps the PBS produced documentary will.

I forgot to recommend Stendhal - his two main works are The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black. He is very much not tedious, very good at psychological realism, and one of the few authors that emphasizes the importance of randomness and misunderstandings in life.