Book recommendation thread

...Yeah. Just post the name and author of a good [non-sexual] book and I will post a Google Books link to it.

I'll add the ones that other people recommend in this thread and note who did it in parentheses. They are listed in the order they come in.

SPECIAL NOTICE: I will only post the first book in a series unless the others in that series have been read by me or posted in this thread by someone other than me. The series name will be posted in front of the book name.

The ones that I have no idea how to place:

A Child Called "It" by David J. Pelzer (thatonemexicanguy)
Going Solo by Roald Dahl (Devon-chan)
The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry (Toffee)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (will1008)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
1984 by George Orwell (nex26)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (nex26)

For the middle/high schoolers:

The Big Empty by J. B. Stephens (me)
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (me)
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick (me)
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris (me)
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (me)
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (thatonemexicanguy)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (thatonemexicanguy)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (ParanoiaAgent)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Bloodlust_NS)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Bloodlust_NS)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Bloodlust_NS)


For adults:

Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin (me)
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (Devon-chan)
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (msg)
The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (msg)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (msg)
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (Toffee)
Cell by Stephen King (Toffee)
World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal by Aaron Rosenberg (will1008)

UPDATE: I'm kinda having trouble doing this now, so I'm going to just let moderators and people who can edit others' posts do this. Thanks for all the recommendations!

 

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume [screw you guys, it's a good book xD]
I highly doubt people on romu read...

 

You'll notice I said Google Books, not Wikipedia.

 

I like how the OP is so against sex. Ridiculous.

Anyway, a few choices (If you haven't read these, READ THEM):
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Bonfire of the Vanities (Caution, this novel contains a sex scene. Don't let that stop you from reading it...)
Tom Wolfe

Hey, some of us can.

 

my bad...fixed

ive been planning to read the giver and a child called it, hear they are good...
maybe ill just download the audio :3

 

Seconded.

Also:
Kick Back - David Hill
Deals with sex, but it's more about coping with molestation stuff. The rest of the book is about growing up.
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Going Solo - Roald Dahl
Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks - Mick Foley
Jonah Lomu Autobiography

 

Anyone thats debated with me in the past will understand why I recommend these.
On the genealogy of morality

The Antichrist

Thus spoke Zarathustra

 

This is a lie.

 

i would say most of the readers on romu are kids who don't read....
maybe i am wrong...
downloading the giver today, cause im mostly on-the-go...

 

I agree with will1008. Name one person on RomU who doesn't read.

Heck, reading this text is still reading.

 

Finished dl The Giver audio book, hope it's good...

 

If you like zombie apocalypse stories then I suggest

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
CELL: A Novel by Stephen King

both are REALLY good books with lots of action, drama and sci-fi stuff. Though Patient Zero has more military, science stuff and CELL is more focused on survival.

Also,

The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry

VERY good book about genetic engineering, extinction of whole races, neo-nazism, military might and intelligence, and all-out action.

 

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Alain de Botton - Status Anxiety
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
all of the Sherlock Holmes books

those are off the top of my head, but I have some more recommendations in my goodreads profile that I just made (and isn't that updated yet haha)

 

I've read the giver, a very good book. I was pissed of by the cliffhanger, though.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is not bad. (Harper Lee)
"Beyond the Dark Portal". This. This is Warcraft. (Aaron Rosenberg, Christie Golden)

 

With the addition of "Gathering Blue" and "Messenger", it forms a loose trilogy. I won't spoil what happened though.

The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay (all by Suzanne Collins) are good. It's a nice trilogy about a post-apocalyptic future where forcing children to fight each other is a form of entertainment.

 

The Subtle Knife
A year in Provence

CBFed putting links, go google it yourself

 

A Clockwork Orange (Although, there is rape scenes. Get the British version, not the American)
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

To Kill a Mockingbird looks like a high-school book to me.

Yeah, I've read their summaries.
Oddly enough, the Artemis Fowl series kept entertained (I download the Flips one, hehe)

 

The Hunger Games was decent, even though the violence was really sanitized and toned down (it's for a YA audience after all). But if you guys enjoyed that, I strongly recommend Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (the original novel, not the manga and movies) :) It's also a dystopian novel about kids who are forced to kill one another in a game the government made to control the citizens.

 

Twilight