Please recommend a book. Any topic, ficton or... - Chris Baskind

Alchemist http://bit.ly/3kykoE (normally motivational books = common sense + zzzzz. but Alchemist, the exception) - Mona Nomura

I'm not reading enough. This is going to help me build a reading list. - Chris Baskind

C.S. Lewis's "the Four Loves." - Mark Trapp

Oooooh! "Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence" is fun to read. - idnan

The Wheel of Time, I'll never get tired of it :) - Rahul Das

The Brand Gap - http://books.google.ca/books... - Andrew Smith

The Farther Reaches of Human Nature - A. H. Maslow - Kevin Bondelli

Just finished "The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz. It was quite an experience. - Jorge Escobar

Motoring with Mohammed - Eric Hansen. Travel writer who is always a fun read. - Dave Martin

These are great. Please add more as you think of them. For the purpose of this little personal project, I'm only going to read book recommended to me -- nothing I find by myself. - Chris Baskind

Chris it depend where your interest lies. How can you say recommend a book? Do you like Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment? Stephen Crane Red badge of courage? Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Catch -22, Kurt Vonnegut...Blah, Blah! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Extremely Loud and incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffron Foer - George Smith

OK let me throw in some fluff: any janet evanovich stephanie plum book. - R. Ferguson

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - fast read, very well written and affecting... - Ňicķ

Toni Morrison's Paradise - R. Ferguson

"Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, - George The Writer

i second bjorn tipling's pick. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner. Blankets, Craig Thompson. - edythe

Igor: the request isn't truly random -- our mutual association with FF and the way we follow each other here is likely to mean a lot of what people suggest will, indeed, interest me. - Chris Baskind

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" (http://www.amazon.com/Short-H...) - cmiper

Bob Sutton's "No Asshole Rule" - imabonehead

I read Dibs in Search of Self (Readers Digest Condensed Version) when I was a kid. - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Deep Economy by Bill McKibben - quick read - Meryn Stol

The Elusive Quest for Growth - William Easterly. This is a great book on the topic if Economic growth and incentives and what we need to do to help developing nations. I wrote my thesis on the topic after reading this book. - Frankie Warren

Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin - Dave Martin

Of something I've recently read, Berlin (or depending on country, the title might be The Fall of Berlin) Antony Beevor. - Duncan Riley

Magician by Raymond E Feist is one of my all time favorites - John Duff

Just one? Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. - AJ Kohn

The Known World by Edward P. Jones - Jason Toney

The Key Above The Door by Maurice Walsh - It's old (and probably only available 2nd hand) but I love it. - Adam Christie

The Wisdom Of Florence Scovel Shinn - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I have to echo Mona because I am quite the lemming. No really, "The Alchemist" is a book that speaks to me on a very profound level. I don't like to talk about "touching my soul" because frankly, that sort of talk makes me blush, but in this case, it is very true. - Anna Haro

Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson. A Canadian humourist does a travel memoire definately awesome. - Keke

"It's Not About the Coffee" by Howard Behar. -

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - carlotta fancypants

If you want to gain a completely new understanding of human personality and why people do what they do, read Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. And then read the Illuminatus Trilogy by the same to blow your mind. Then read Schrodinger's Cat by R.A.W. again to put it all back together (albeit in a pretty different configuration). - Her Lindsay-ness

The White Boy Shuffle or Slumberland, both by Paul Beatty. - cecily

'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John Irving. - Akiva Moskovitz

Reading "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins was like having a curtain drawn open in my brain. Otherwise, what Lindsay said. - Internet's Tad

+1 Akiva, that's a good one. - Her Lindsay-ness

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. - Carlos Ayala

I always recommend Colin Harrison -- fantastic storyteller, great writer, usually some kind of taut and tragic tale set in modern New York. - Eric Berlin

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 11 Minutes by Paolo Coehlo, and I second the Illuminatus trilogy and Focault's Pendulum. - Helen Sventitsky

...And would add that The Havana Room is a good place to start - Eric Berlin

To Kill a Mockingbord or The Lord of the Rings - Douglas E. Welch from twhirl

i have the bookseller of kabul i'll senns it to you if you want DM me and i'll ship it to you. pass on the knowledge - i ♥ derrick #bellymeme from twhirl

One of my favorite books of all time: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Justin Korn

The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th cent. Book could have been written yesterday. - Keith - @tsudo

I'm going to 2nd (or is it 3rd now?) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel. A wonderful book, where you can lose yourself in a world of footnootes. Can take a bit to get into it though. - David Adam

Invisible Cities - Italo calvino. - Parth Awasthi

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - John Duff

Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore - Thomas Hawk

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. - Ole Begemann

Bill Bryson's Thuderbolt Kid is a cracking! - Chris Nixon

I also love The Alchemist and Prayer for Owen Meany. My unique recommendations are the two books by the Arbinger Institute, Leadership & Self-Deception and Anatomy of Peace. Much food for thought. - asiriusgeek

Two that have stuck with me are A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber for non-fiction and and Fifth Business by Robertson Davies for a novel. - Ryan

The Integral Trees - Vezquex: God of FF

Bumping this. Thanks for all the great recommendations. I have about half of them in my new Goodreads account, and will get the others over the weekend. First book is on the way, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." - Chris Baskind

just getting into Cockroach by Rawi Hage -- it's pretty amazing. - Trent Olson

Reading James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning - raw realism - Arjan Writes

nice recommendations! - Hayk H.