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Almost all of Terry Pratchett's books because I just can't believe one person comes up with this stuff! I'm in awe of a mind that can think of the scenarios he puts his characters, the dialogue he comes up with and the wonderful satire he invents to gently send up so many stereo- and archetypes and social norms and cliches of fantasy literature.
Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (I generally don't like science fiction -- but then, that book isn't really science fiction) The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Foundation Pit, Chevengur and The Locks of Epiphany by Andrei Platonov (hell, everything that man wrote is sublime, but Foundation Pit is his most famous book in the West)
The Plague by Albert Camus The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Library of Babel by Jorge Borges (it's just a short story, but it's worth the inclusion) The Crescent and the Bull by Erich Zehren
Normally I like fiction, but I read a non-fic book that blew me away, just a few weeks ago. It was In the Mind's Eye, and was about learning disabilities and genius and talked about how the two often go hand-in-hand b/c genius is often a new way of seeing the same old world, and dyslexics may have that new way of seeing.
Les Miserables is my favorite fiction book and it always gets to me.
The Stars, My Destination by Alfred Bester - a sci-fi romp intertwined with an incredible character development - re-read this one many times
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - also re-read countless time
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - wrote a paper on this one and received a 4.0 in college - I don't think I have ever re-read it probably due to it making me think of the movie and Malcolm McDowell's incredible performance
I also read All Quiet on The Western Front many times and as the OP indicated, that book really stands out in my mind as a great one. There is a great golf comedy book which does it for me titled Missing Links by Rick Reilly. Just a lot of fun and lots of laughs.
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