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Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

    by Orson Scott Card

    These are the first two books in the "Ender Series", as well as my favorites. The other three are Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Ender's Shadow is better than the other, but read them in this order. They take place maybe a thousand years in the future, after two alien invasions of Earth. Everybody knows that the aliens are planning a third invasion, so to be prepared for this, children who show military command skills are taken away from their parents at a young age, and begin training to fight the aliens. Ender is the child chosen to lead the human fleet in the next invasion. Good stuff!

Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs

    by Thomas Harris

    Yes, the books the Hannibal movies were based off of. Red Dragon offers a very interesting look into what it takes to catch a serial killer, and Silence of the Lambs is just a spooky thriller. I also recommend watching the movies after you've read the books. The book and movie of Hannibal were not very good at all, so just get the book from the library, and wait until the movies comes on TV.

The Mists of Avalon

    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

         This is the King Arthur legend told from the women's side of things. They key figure is his half sister, Morgaine (Morgan Le Fay) who is a priestess on the island of Avalon. The British Isles had in the past always been a place where the Goddess had been sacred, but Christianity comes in, and the new is at war with the old. Those who worshipped the Goddess always held women equal to men; Those who believed in Christ, saw women as evil because of Eve and the apple. The saddest thing about this book is that eventually everyone grows old and dies, and then "the way things used to be" is changed.

It

    by Steven King

    I love this book to death!! It's not very scary, it's just very well written. It's about the bond between seven children that forms one summer when an evil threatens their town. It's about friendship, and a forgotten but wonderful childhood. You MUST read this book *laughs*

Sophie's World

    by Jostein Gaarder

    This book was written by a Norwegian philosophy teacher and was translated into English. It's about philosophy, and there's a plot and stuff, so it's not all blah. If nothing else, it's a very good introduction to philosophy, which is something that I've started to study.

Catch 22

    by Joseph Heller

    Yossarian lives!! This is an amazingly awesome book about the stupidity of bureaucracy. Yossarian is a captain in the army during WWII, and he flies missions. Every time he gets within three missions of completing his requirement, they raise the requirement! You can only get out if you ask to get out, but they only let people out if they're crazy, and a crazy person wouldn't ask to get out, only sane people would, but they can't let you out if you're sane! It's a mad crazy book that everyone should read :-)

Brave New World

    by Adroulus Huxley

    This book certainly gives some food for thought. Everybody is a clone, nobody has a natural birth. One of the things the society in this book was trying to create was a bunch of uneducated people whose only motivation came from sexual pleasure, and the thing they wanted to eliminate was intelligence, symbolized by Shakespeare. This would have gone well, except that they found a man who had a natural birth and took him back into society, and he did not know how to cope with it. Mad crazy stuff. If you ever read it, let me know and we shall talk.

Foundation, etc.

    by Isaac Asimov

    The father of science fiction! These are some mad awesome books! I like Foundation a lot, because it is mostly dialogue, so it doesn't get bogged down with a lot of descriptions of everything. Good, clean, simple wholesome science fiction. All of the Foundation books are composed of a bunch of short stories. The characters change, but everything goes under the basic premise that you can shape the future using psychohistology and the natural forces of history.

I, Robot

    by Isaac Asmiov

    This is a collection of short stories about people's first experiences with robots. All robots have to follow the Three Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction allow a human to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    All the stories are about robots interacting with humans and how they follow the Three Laws. Good stuff!!