Here's mine:

Fiction
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
-In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
-1984 by George Orwell

Non-fiction
-The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
-The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
-The Game by Neil Strauss

The Old Testament (mix of fiction and non-fiction)

Fiction:
A confederacy of Dunces
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Iliad and The Odyssey

Non-fiction:
SEX AND CULTURE
The Timeless Way of Building
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

-the grand design, stephen hawking
-plague of the dead, ZA recht
-the soddit, really funny.
+various fantasy books, mostly themed around some kind of magic.

Ooh, difficult one.

Fiction:

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Plus a hundred others

Non-Fiction:

On Writing - Stephen King
The Professional Pastry Chef - Bo Friberg
The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker

What's the overall premise of this book? I love this subject.

Just click on the link. My review of the book is there.

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household , believe it or not but its the only fiction book i have ever read as an adult, but I sure as hell was impressed with it .

Non fiction would be-
-Arnold The Education Of A Bodybuilder, this book had a huge positive effect on me from the late 80s onwards, it motivated and guided me in large part along an enjoyable and in many ways life saving path for 10 years. my love-shyness would have been so unbearable without this Passionate hobby.
-The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, came across this book in the mid 90s - and it had the same effect as arnolds, this lead onto a lot of enjoyable further reading.
- history- anything and every on the subject, I have so many books laying around 50+, how to pick a fav.
on a side note I use to think there was noting worse than having LS/ SA until I got depression in the last decade which pretty much destroyed my life, lost the ability to focus comprehend and recall anything ; soul destroying,

It's hard to choose, given I probably have over 1,500 books in my place.

But, if I had to choose, I'd pick these:

Non-Fiction

'This Is the Zodiac Speaking': Into the Mind of A Serial Killer by Michael D. Kelleher and David Van Nuys

Talks about the kind of killer Zodiac might have been and analysis letters line by line, paragraph by paragraph to try to get a possible glimpse into the killer's mind and motives. Very interesting read. I'm a speculation junkie, especially for unsolved cases. About the closest one gets to possibly understanding the motives of this elusive killer.


Witnesses to the Unsolved: Prominent Psychic Detectives and Mediums Explore Our Most Haunting Mysteries by Edward Olshaker

Prominent psychics look into famous cases from the standpoint of 'remote viewing'. In each chapter, each case, the psychic gives their input. Cases include the deaths of Vincent Foster; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Kurt Cobain; and others. From the mystery surrounding the death of Secretary of Commerce Ron Borwn, to the fate of former CIA chief William Colby; to the violent deaths of financial magnate John Markle and his family. I know much people here don't put stock in psychic phenomena, and I respect that. But, I am fascinated.

Third, it's a tie between Gilmartin's book and a book called 'The Nine Nations of North America'.

In the latter, the author breaks the continent down into regions based on productivity and general core values. Quebec is a 'nation', as well as 'New England'.

Fiction

Don't read much fiction...but this one stands out.

It's a fictional account/novel based on facts, which attracted me to it in the first place.

The Legend of the Zodiac Killer by Francis J. Resch (a based on fact novel)

I'm not a huge reader because of A.D.D. But,

Fiction:

The Gunslinger, King
The Drawing of the three, King
Ranma II, Clark

Non Fiction:

China adapting the past confronting the future, Regents of the Univ of Michigan
Essentials of Cultural Anthropology, Baily/Peoples
Conformity and Conflict readings in cultural anthropology, Spradley/McCurdy