The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger is my all-time favorite book and I've read it probably close to two dozen times since I was 15--Holden Caulfield is practically my personal messiah at this point; he presumably got admitted to a sanitarium for my angst.
I also quite enjoy a good work of dystopian fiction and loved
1984 by George Orwell and
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
I found
The Pigman by Paul Zindell captivating when I was in high school and would love to revisit it sometime to see if a me with double the life experience would still like it as much as I did for English class freshman year.
Call of the Wild by Jack London speaks to my soul.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is tough to get into but once you do you can't get enough of it; at least I couldn't at age 14, perhaps because of Rhett Butler--however I've never read a book I loved so much with a protagonist that I thought was so incredibly foolish I could have thrown all 1,036 pages at a wall on multiple occasions.
Sylvia Plath's collection of poems in
Ariel are incredible, and speaking of poetry, my favorite poem is
Howl by Allen Ginsberg--very long and vulgar, but a brilliant mid-century social critique.
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority by Rose Wilder Lane is *chef's kiss* so good it makes you wonder why Ayn Rand was so popular during the same time period.
Also, there is one more - Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman.
I can't say that it's my favourite book, but I like psychology, and I have it at university, so from time to time I read some books, and I liked this one a lot. And now I need to write one paper, and I managed to find one idea on this list
psychology research topics and now I need to choose the right book which will help me with it. Maybe, it will be Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely but I'm not sure yet.
