If you like non-fictional historical stuff, my favorite book of all time is Saga of the Pony Express. Should be required reading for every high school freshman just so they may get an understanding how easy they have it today. http://www.amazon.com/Saga-Pony-Express-Joseph-Certo/dp/0878424520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211324223&sr=1-1

Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk. Kind of twisted, but I loved it.

Any of the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child .. all of them really .. they're all good :)

Summer Sisters, Judy Blume She explores the intersection of the lives of two teenagers as they are discovering their selves, their independence, and their values. There are two very different young women: Caitlin and Victoria. The two girls live and go to school in New Mexico. Victoria, usually called Vix, is the oldest of four children in a family where everything-especially money-is a struggle. Caitlin is the daughter of an exotic mother, Phoebe and a father who lives in Martha's Vineyard's. Caitlin is the popular girl, the one that everyone in junior high wants to be friends with. To Vix's great surprise, Caitlin asks Vix to join her on a summer in Martha's Vineyard. They quickly form a bond that would continue every summer as they returned to live with Caitlin's dad for three months. This is not a book of innocence or child-like sweetness. Indeed, much of what Blume shows us in the lives of these pre-teenagers are the very things that parents don't want to know about-no matter how natural or inevitable they might be. It's not comfortable to read about two 11-year-olds discovering the "Power" even though they don't quite understand what it is nor why it makes them feel like they do. Yet, Blume is incredibly accurate in capturing that mix of naivete and sexual discovery. Perhaps part of her success lies in her ability to refresh the memories of her readers to the time when they too were first making their own discoveries.

-Five People You Meet In Heaven -Tuesday's With Morrie -For One More Day You will gain such an appreciation for life from these books. be prepared with a box or two of kleenex

Anything by Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, or C.S. Lewis. Also, Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost (read Freckles first) by Gene Stratton Porter.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck if you haven't already read it. Otherwise, The Reindeer People by Piers Vitebsky is a great read about a people few even know about.

... all of these ... http://www.healing-tao.com/tao-garden/universal/en/books/ .

I might bore you since I am a fan of reading history. They are great reads though: THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Conquest And Vengeance In The Caucasus http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9781850434030&ourl=The%2DSabres%2Dof%2DParadise%2FLesley%2DBlanch The Octopus http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/the_octopus.htm I can't remember the others but this will get you started.

Life is So Good. http://medlarcomfits.blogspot.com/2007/10/recommended-reading-life-is-so-good.html It's a story of the life of one of the last living slaves. He coauthored the book when he was 101 and learned to read at age 98. He died in 2001.