Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
- A great American novel with lines like - "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"

Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
- Funny and the message makes you think.

Oryx and Crake 
by Margaret Atwood
- Is there anyone who didn't like this novel?

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
- His words flow beautifully.

Tender Bar a Memoir
by J.R. Moehringer
- That rare well-written memoir you can actually believe.

The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathen Franzen
- A plot about getting together for X-mas dinner can be extraordinarily entertaining for over 500 pages - only if Franzen writes it.

The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
- I read this when it came out. Not a month goes by that I don't think about this book.

Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankel
- I've read this more times than any other book. The need to revisit his philosophy never ends.

A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
- My wife's favorite book. She's got good taste (not just in picking a husband).

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Time Magazine Best Novel 2007
New Yorker Best Novel of 2007
2007 National Book Critics Award for Fiction
2008 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
And I also loved it.

The Book of Lost Things: A Novel by John Connolly, who said, "Fiction acts as a prism, taking the reality of our existance and breaking it down into its constituent parts, allowing us to see it in a completely different form."


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