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In addition to those mentioned, I'm a fan of Vernor Vinge.

I really enjoyed Anna Karenina.

But my nomination is for Moby Dick. I enjoyed the first 100 pages quite a lot, then I enjoyed nine or ten paragraphs in the remainder. How this is assigned to HS...

My only advice is to find a keyboard that contains a shift key and an apostrophe. Oh, and maybe be clear on the difference between sensuality and sexuality.

JP Donleavy has had me laughing harder than any other author. But it's been many years, and perhaps I've matured since then!

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So to the original poster, if the interest in study is genuine, I would recommend the works of Joseph Campbell (e.g. The Hero With a Thousand Faces). His study of world mythologies (and he...

Well, you might want to do some reading on what science is. Evolution is a Theory (has been elevated to that capital letter status). It can be tested and "falsified". A scientist would dearly love to...

Speaking of the Bible as literature (because, you know, this is a literature forum)...

I am halfway through my reading of the New Testament. The Gospels are horribly repetitious. Only the Gospel...

Cormac McCarthy is dark, and good literature to boot. Stephen King has some enjoyable things mixed in with the crap. The Stand was fun (if quite long).

Paul Auster does this recursively in A Man in the Dark

Alan Watts' The Book.

Tess is a strong character, certainly, but she exhibits that strength in her endurance of suffering.

I would agree if it were reading on a backlit PC. But reading on an e-ink Kindle, the experience is fine. Better in some ways (ability to annotate, highlight and search your notes and highlights,...

Nadia May. She was quite good.

I won't listen to a whole book, but what I like to do is to read at night, then listen on my commute. Then when I'm back home I flip ahead to where I stopped listening. I recently did that with Anna...

Give Alan Watts' The Book a read. He presents a less dreary view of existence. In sum, art and audience are two sides of the same thing.

I didn't read Watership Down until I was an adult. Now I am looking forward to having a grandchild to read it to. Such a charming book.

In teaching myself German, I went through some children's...

There's actually a decent website called "whatshouldIreadnext.com". Type in a list of what you like/dislike and find similar lists and recommendations.

I have a much less impressive list, but the criteria was "life-changing."

In 2nd grade, I checked out a Sherlock Holmes anthology. The school librarian tried to convince me to leave it for an...

I can agree with the first part - the details of Russian farm council politics were definitely skim-worthy at best. Reminded me of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, where you could skip two pages of...

I am long out of school and I didn't study literature, so I haven't been forced to read anything in a long time. So if I don't like something, I stop. But I decided that I had to read Crime and...

A friend of mine is really into him, so I bought and read Man in the Dark. It was interesting but ultimately fairly forgettable. But evidently I shouldn't have started with that one. I'll come back...

Sure. Most recently at the end of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Or in Solzhenitzyn's Cancer Ward: a young girl, perhaps 14 or 15, lifts up her gown and asks an elderly man to kiss her breasts,...

I loved the series. I found the whole notion of daemons to be charming, as well as a way to paint deep pictures of the characters. Mrs. Coulter's monkey daemon made her more sinister. Lyra was brave...

I am generally not a huge fan of the short story, but have found those of Wallace Stegner to be quite good.

Florentino was the most developed character (i.e. he was best described). He was certainly morally imperfect, but so are real people. The affair with his niece is grotesque, but without it we might...