  This isn't a list that I necessarily recommend,  but I'm taking these from a raving listserve I used to belong to.  These are the titles the people mentioned they were reading or had just finished,  or recommended.  I've heard of a few of them ( like A People's History ,
 of course)  but just in case I'd want to peruse these some day,  here's my handy dandy list:  urlLink Romiette and Julio by Sharon M.  Draper urlLink Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff urlLink The Godmakers by Frank Herbert urlLink Sophie's World:  A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder urlLink Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Losers Club (
but by urlLink which author?  urlLink House Atreides by Brian Herbert &  Kevin Anderson urlLink House Corrino by Kevin Anderson &  Brian Herbert urlLink Neurospeak:  Transforms Your Body,  While You Read!
 by Robert Masters urlLink Women by Charles Bukowski urlLink Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski Song of Ice and Fire (  urlLink series )  by George R.  R.  Martin urlLink The Way of Zen by Alan Watts urlLink The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff urlLink The Path to the Spiders' Nest by Italo Calvino urlLink Stupid White Men.  and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
 by Michael Moore urlLink Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown urlLink Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk urlLink Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut urlLink Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson urlLink Hollywood by Charles Bukowski urlLink Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton urlLink The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky urlLink Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ( I actually read this when I was in elementary school,  I think.  urlLink The Stand by Stephen King urlLink Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W.  Loewen urlLink Brave New World by Aldous Huxley urlLink A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M.  Miller urlLink Hard-
boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Harki Murakami urlLink Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein urlLink Grok by Tom Maremaa urlLink Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach urlLink The Art of War by Sun Tzu urlLink The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler urlLink The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco urlLink Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card urlLink Critical Path by R.  Buckminster Fuller urlLink Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco urlLink The Illuminatus!  Trilogy by Robert Shea urlLink Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson urlLink Neuromancer by William Gibson urlLink The Republic of East LA by Luis J.  Rodriguez urlLink The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison urlLink The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho urlLink Cherry by Mary Karr urlLink The Moral Animal by Robert Wright urlLink A People's History of the United States:  1492- Present by Howard Zinn 
