"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (I still need to finish the sequels)
"Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne
"The Invisible Man" by HG Wells
"War of the Worlds" by the same (bonus cookies if you look into Orson Welles radio broadcast)
"Crime & Punishment" by Dostoyevsky
"The Master & Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" by the same
"The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants" by Peter D'Amato
"Plant Systematics" by Michael Simpson
"History of the World in 7 Cheap Things" by Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel
"The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus
"No Exit" by Satre
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"Republic" by Plato
"The Enchiridion" by Epictetus
"Play Winning Chess" by Yasser Seirawan
"Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev
"Fundamental Chess Openings" by Paul van der Sterren (a good portion, anyway)
I've left out so much but all of the above are works I'd highly recommend, not sticking to any particular genre or theme.
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (I still need to finish the sequels)
"Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne
"The Invisible Man" by HG Wells
"War of the Worlds" by the same (bonus cookies if you look into Orson Welles radio broadcast)
"Crime & Punishment" by Dostoyevsky
"The Master & Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" by the same
"The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants" by Peter D'Amato
"Plant Systematics" by Michael Simpson
"History of the World in 7 Cheap Things" by Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel
"The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus
"No Exit" by Satre
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"Republic" by Plato
"The Enchiridion" by Epictetus
"Play Winning Chess" by Yasser Seirawan
"Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev
"Fundamental Chess Openings" by Paul van der Sterren (a good portion, anyway)
I've left out so much but all of the above are works I'd highly recommend, not sticking to any particular genre or theme.