A page turner about the history of a family: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks. Might be a little strange if you're not german, but it is throughly readable and enjoyable.
A small mindbender: Bruce Sterling - Zeitgeist: A short weird little novel about a dude and his daughter and concepts of words and narratives and media...
A big mindbender: David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest. Yeah, it's a big boy and it is cumbersome to read, but it's utterly funny and weird and captivating once you realize you can skip the parts about detailed chemistry descriptions in the footnotes and go back to the parts about the weird and strange people. Also Tennis (?!).
Funny, engaging and light reads: Anything by Terry Pratchett. My favorites are the books about the Watch. The fifth Elephant and Night Watch i re-read every year, they are just pure reading joy.
A page turner about the history of a family: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks. Might be a little strange if you're not german, but it is throughly readable and enjoyable.
A small mindbender: Bruce Sterling - Zeitgeist: A short weird little novel about a dude and his daughter and concepts of words and narratives and media...
A big mindbender: David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest. Yeah, it's a big boy and it is cumbersome to read, but it's utterly funny and weird and captivating once you realize you can skip the parts about detailed chemistry descriptions in the footnotes and go back to the parts about the weird and strange people. Also Tennis (?!).
Funny, engaging and light reads: Anything by Terry Pratchett. My favorites are the books about the Watch. The fifth Elephant and Night Watch i re-read every year, they are just pure reading joy.