Favourite Books/Recommendations

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
It's about a 15 year old boy, Alex DeLarge, and his group of 'Droogs' who are into ultra-violence, rape and drugs. Alex is sent to prison for the accidental murder of an old woman. He is then forced to participate in a form of brainwashing called 'Ludovico's Technique'. This technique makes him sick when he thinks about or is confronted with violence and when he hear Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - which he loves.
It's set it a dystopian near-future. (Near-future for the 1960's anyhow.) It's apparently sci-fi, but is barely so. (It also uses 'Nadsat' which is a language Burgess created for the novel.)

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (which I definitely recommend to anyone who's looking to get into sci-fi but doesn't know where to start!)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

I am reading The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith and I recommend it a 100%.

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Anthem by Ayn Rand.
Rose Madder by Stephen King.
Looking for Alaska by John Green.

~Just a few of my favorites from this year~

The Book of Lost Things and anything by Chuck Palahniuk

Corey Taylor from Slipknot wrote a book a couple years ago called Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between Born Bad & Damaged Good. Nikki Sixx wrote a book called Heroin Diaries. I'm all about reading books about my favorite musicians, but those two books are very interesting. Then there's Clive Barker's book, The Thief Of Always. I'm not one to read a book more than once unless I absolutely love it to pieces. This one is one of those books. It's pretty thick in pages, but once I started, I couldn't bring myself to put it down unless I finished it. Another one of his book's Mister B. Gone was a good read, too. It's very...different, though. It's about a demon & he ends up meeting another demon. Along the way, it talks of their journey basically. Stephen King books are also very, very good. Carrie is probably my favorite.

Classic Science Fiction:
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
1984 by George Orwell
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman (hey, it's steampunk, so it counts)

New Science Fiction:
Legend by Marie Lu
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

More Stuff:
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (YA/Horror)
Warriors series by Erin Hunter (Children/Fantasy)
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (Classic/Fantasy)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic/Crime)

There are probably a lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

Fiction:
East by Edith Pattou
First Impressions by Debra White Smith
The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan
The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan
The Sea of Trolls trilogy by Nancy Farmer

Non-fiction:
Papillon by Henri Charrière

All of Matthew Reilly's work is brilliant, to be honest. He writes very military-based action novels full of gun battles and he throws his heroes into so many impossible situations and then somehow manages to write them out of those situations in a completely rational way. He's such an inspiration of mine and his books always keep you on your toes. He's got a huge imagination and his writing is really intense and he works so many twists and surprises into his work. There's never a slow moment.

His Scarecrow series is incredible, and I think those books are probably his most popular, but honestly all of his work is phenomenal and it's definitely worth a read!

Simone Elkeles and Amanda Ashley both write amazing stories. Amanda write only vampire stories I believe. And Simone's is usually a rich/poor romance or a wrong side of the tracks love.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman was good.

I have read so many books. I can't remember the names of most, and the ones I own aren't near me.

Just finished reading Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the latest Sandman Slim novel The Getaway God. Both were so good. I'd definitely recommend them.

I really want people to read the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The first book is called Guilty Pleasures. It's about a vampire hunter/zombie animator who is a badass female character. It gets very sexual as the series progresses. It's adult supernatural fiction and I love it.

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer - A historical fiction novel about a Hungarian Jew studying in Paris and struggling to survive the Holocaust.

Joyland by Stephen King - A crime novel narrated by the elderly Devin Jones. He tells the story of his college summer spent working as a carny and confronts the legacy of a murder, the fate of a dying child, and how those two things changed his life.

The Mistborn series and its sibling Alloy of Law. Holy shit. Fantasy books, but political, social, vicious and violent and ruthless. The third and last book Hero of Ages will totally rek you, no matter how emotionally intact you think you are.

The Foundling's Tale/Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy by D.M. Cornish. Yeah, it's supposedly aimed at a lower-aged audience (I read the first book when I was twelve), but the worldbuilding is fantastic. The first book isn't the best but the second and especially third are some of my favorites.

Red Rising by Pierce Brown- Darrow gets almost cheesy in his angst sometimes, but otherwise a good read. I absolutely love Sevro.

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, although I love the sequel much more than the first book.

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
None of The Above by I.W. Gregorio
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor
DUFF: The Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger
Pivot Point (#1) by Kasie West
Little Peach by Peggy Kern
The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Croak by Gina Damico
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Mayer
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Black Dust Mambo by Adrian Phoenix
The Starbound Trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Aimee by Mary Beth Miller
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling is obviously the best read you'll ever come across. Can't beat it, just not possible. But there are some other really good reads that I absolutely love as well and those are:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
The son of one of Hamas' founders tells all.

Concrete Monsters by Zohar Zahira
A young Palestinian sells his body to provide for his family in a ghetto similar to the Gaza Strip.

Ben Gurion's Scandals by Naeim Giladi
Once a proud Zionist, Naeim Giladi uncovers Israel's many dirty secrets.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz is such a beautiful book. It about two boys falling in love throughout high school, told from the perspective of one of them, and the writing itself is so poetic and beautiful. I borrowed it to read it for the first time and then immediately went out and bought a hard copy so I'd always have it on hand.