Off Topic Books (off topic)

Sick of asking people on the ebar for any good books they're reading or can recommend.
Any books that has influenced you/changed the way you think/favourite authors/genre etc. feel free to post below.

Edit: graphic novels as well i.e. walking dead.100 bullets etc.

Recommendations so far-

The Guv'nor - Lenny Mclean
The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau
1984 - George Orwell
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Essais - Michel de Montaigne -
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
On The Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt
Such, Such Were The Joys - George Orwell
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
Dictionnaire philosophique - Voltaire
Night Walks - Charles Dickens
The Adversary collection - F Paul Wilson
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Blood Meridian and The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Most of Bret Easton Ellis' stuff
Ranulph Finnes' autobiograpy
The Life of Senna - Tom Rubythorn
Steve Mcqueen: Portrait of an American Rebel - Marshall Terril
Watchmen - Alan Moore
The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City - Frank Miller
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? By D.A. Warin
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Mistborn trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
The Iron Heel - Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Children of Men - P.D. James
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Stand - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
Pet Semetary - Stephen King
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
Mr nice - Howard marks
Catch Me if You Can - Frank W. Abagnale
Marching Powder - Rusty Young
Midnight Express - Billy Hayes/William Hoffer
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
God is not Great - Christopher Hitchens
A private life of the brain - Susan Greenfield
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
SAS Survival Handbook - John Wiseman
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Alan Partridge
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Great Siege: Malta, 1565 - Ernle Bradford
A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clark
Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
Jack Reacher series - Lee Childs
Shadows of the apt - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Study trilogy - Maria V Snyder
Glass trilogy - Maria V Snyder
Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work
Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History -CM Sevilla
The Timewaster Letters - Robin Cooper
The Devious Book for Cats: Cats Have Nine Lives. Shouldn't They be Lived to the Fullest?
The World's Stupidest Instructions
Roger's Profanisaurus - Viz and Roger Mellie
The Little Book of Complete Bollocks - Alistair Beaton
The Little Book of Crap Advice - Michael Powell
Rude Kids - Chris Donald
The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacob
Book of Dave - Will Self
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
War and Piece - Leo Tolstoy
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Underworld - Don De Lillo
On Suicide - Emile Durkheim
The Flashman books - George MacDonald Fraser
In Search of the Indo-Europeans - J.P. Mallory
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Junkie - William S. Burroughs
Hell's Angels - Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Motorcycles Diaries - Ernesto Guevara
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Iliad - Homer
And They Wonder Why We Drink - Billy Furious
Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
The Ritual - Adam Nevill
The Thread - Victoria Hislop
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Cuckoo - Julia crouch
Never Knowing - Chevy Stevens
Still Missing - Chevy Stevens
The Ritual - Adam Nevill
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith
Flashman and the Mountain of Light - George MacDonald Fraser
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Lolita - Vladmir Nobokov
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Secret History- Donna Tartt
Sniper One - SGT Dan Mills
Task Force Helmand - Doug Beattie

 

Lenny Mclean - The Guv'nor

 

Find Stephen King novels a decent read, some of them **** with the mind a bit though.

 

Octave Mirbeau - The Torture Garden.

 

there's one OT recommended ages ago and for the life of me can't remember it.

 

1984 is superb.

 

This.

American Psycho is a good book to

 

enjoyed these as well loved one flew over the cuckoos nest when in my teens as well as most things by the guy in my avatar

 

Agree here as well. It's very graphic mind.

 

Apart from the slaughter it summed up the 80's money grabbing culture brilliantly though

 

I read mostly essays and non fiction. Some favourites of mine which have influenced how I think:

Michel de Montaigne - Essais
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World
William Hazlitt - On The Pleasure of Hating
George Orwell - Such, Such Were The Joys
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
Voltaire - Dictionnaire philosophique
Charles Dickens - Night Walks

Also enjoy poetry, especially Hardy, Wilde and, more recently, Poe.

 

went through a sci-fi/fantasy phase when i was in my early teens stuff like elric (Michael moorcock) the stainless steel rat books,Tolkien and Philip K. Dick and F Paul Wilson (the adversary collection)

 

As long as noone recommends Great Expectations i'll be happy

 

enjoy poetry as well

 

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

 

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Blood Meridian and The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Most of Bret Easton Ellis' stuff
Ranulph Finnes' autobiograpy
The Life of Senna - Tom Rubythorn
Steve Mcqueen: Portrait of an American Rebel - Marshall Terril
Watchmen - Alan Moore
The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City - Frank Miller
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hunter S. Thompson's stuff
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Also like reading about quantum physics.

 

This would have been hilarious if all the previous books in your list were Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss. Are you a physicist?

 

Brilliant list. Steinbeck's stuff is great. Raymond Chandler's novels are a good read.

 

Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? By D.A. Warin

Anything (not the title) by Tolstoy though personally recommend Anna Karenina

 

Can anyone reccomend any Dystopia themed books apart from 1984 and A Clockwork Orange?