Must Read List

A place for us to share our favorite books and give suggestions. I'll start:
1.American Gods-Neil Gaiman
2.The Mists of Avalon-Marion Zimmer Bradley
3.Empress-Shan Sa
4.Sympathy for the Devil-edited by Tim Pratt
5.Geisha, a Life-Mineko Iwasaki (this is the woman who inspired sayuri in memoirs of a geisha)

your turn

Harry Potter series
Tripod Trilogy
Walk Two Moons
Darkangel Trilogy
If you like classics, Pride and Prejiduce and Daddy-Long-Legs
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The Lost Olympian
Peeps and So yesterday

i second american gods
the midnighters trilogy (anything by scott westerfield really)
anything by stephen king (though you've probably already read stuff by him before)
white cat by holly black (again, anything by holly black, though i've personally only read a few things by her. she edited for the unicorn side of zombies vs. unicorns by the way. i'll admit the zombie side was better but i still like her work. she looks like chloe too)
i hunt killers by some guy i can't remember the name of. stori's borrowing my book right now
wow i've listed some dark stuff. no wonder all the stuff i've been writing is dark (or darker than it usually is) i like parenthesis too much. you know they call them round brackets in Britain. so off topic.
yeah, that's all i can think of right now. i'll keep you posted.

- Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
- Neuromancer (William Gibson)
- Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
- Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
- Battle Royale (forgot the author)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
- Story Time (Edward Bloor, I think)

I third American Gods.

For poetry...

- The Flowers of Evil (Baudelaire)
- Howl and Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg)
- Anything by Poe

(I'm not as well versed in poetry as I should be.)

For manga...

- Akira (Katsushiro Otomo)
- MW, Dororo, Black Jack, Astro Boy, etc. (anything by Osamu Tezuka)
- Wild Adapter (Kazuya Minekura)
- Hot Gimmick (forgot the author)

(I won't go into anime.)

Phew. I'm done.

Also Voltaire (the author not the singer)
The Tales of Genji-Lady Murasaki (first novel ever written)
Like Water for Chocolate