Literature

World War Z

• The Alchemist
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull

I have a few favorites, but if I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I’d take with me would be Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The book is so layered, and the world is so unusual. It’s one of the few books I kept trying to put off finishing because I didn’t want it to end.

The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager is my absolute favorite.

honorable mentions:

• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Science authors: Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Amy Stewart, Mary Roach

Videogame types: Dead Space, Mass Effect

Trash but can't help it: Sarah J Mass

Actual books:

Pretty much anything by Michael McDowell

Pretty much anything by Charles Bukowski

Anything by Richard Bach

"The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker -- I refuse to read Everville until he finishes the story, I'm not trying to do a George R.R. Martin scenario

"Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker

Dark Tower series - Stephen King

"Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut

"Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk

"John Dies at the End" by David Wong (pretty sure it is a series, but haven't gotten to it)

"Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley

"The Portable Henry Rollins" by Henry Rollins

"Last Call" by Tim Powers (pretty sure this also a series)

"Weight" Jeanette Winterson

Warren Ellis is pretty good too, but he's such a creep I can't bring myself to read anything he's released past Crooked Little Vein.

Well, not sure if Light Novels are accepted, but Mushoku Tensei by Rifujin na Magonote is unquestionably my favourite. Whilst it's understandably critiqued for it's choice of unsavoury topics, it's the only book I've ever read that tells the story of a person genuinely learning from, and reflecting upon the mistakes they've made in the past.

Also Holes by Louis Sacher is pretty neato.

I’m a huge fan of a natural history of dragons by Marie Brennan and the rest of books in the series. Also been obsessed with Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series since my partner introduced it to me lol

The Percy Jackson series is probably my favorite, still even as an adult. It's my comfort book series.

Gone With the Wind