The Reapers by John Connolly.

Come on twesterm, you should've already thought about this for a loooong time and have your stock answer ready. Yeah this question is hell and really hard, but I went through that process once a long time ago.

@steven787, I love me some Stranger, and I haven't read that Hemingway yet, but I love me some Hemingway (I forget which one I read), and I read The Fountainhead and loved it. For the record, I'm not an Objectivist but I am an Existentialist and a Drunk. I thought they went hand in hand?

Read that book. It was pretty intriging (the buggers lol). The gaming/reality relationship was quite an interesting motif.

Best book though, imo, has to be "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Soo bland its good.

The Outsiders

The Karamazov Brothers, by F.M. Dostoevsky (his anglicized name has many accepted spellings)

@Rubang: Existentialism, well it depends who's version of it. Alcohol is hardly mentioned in Camus' books.

I want more people to post non-sci-fi/non-fantasy.

@Oxford: With your name, that choice doesn't surprise me. I liked it.

I haven't read the Karamazov Brothers yet, but I bought a copy at a thrift store for 10 cents that's poorly taped together.

I loved Crime and Punishment though.

"Èramos Seis" by Maria José Dupré.

probably my collected works of edgar allan poe, or Alfred Bester's virtual unrealities.

i dont know what a book is!?