Whats a good book?

Terry Pratchett’s always good. He’s funny and clever. Start with Guards! Guards!

So what are you into?

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is kind of a classic. A wonderful classic.

Anything by Haruki Murakami. Or Chuck Palahniuk. They’re both great guy authors.

I’m currently reading “Couch” by Benjamin Parzybok. I picked it up at powells last week and it’s a hoot. It’s about three slacker guys and a voodoo couch. Highly recommended.

What about some David Baldacci?

I’m a guy into romance novels. But if that’s not your cup of tea, The Count of Monte Cristo or Notes from Underground are great classics I’ve enjoyed. Although at some point these books do take a turn around the love of a woman, which inevitably falls into “romance.”

For a fun novel, I second Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series; I myself prefer the novels dealing with the night watch, followed closely by DEATH. However, if you are also up for nonfiction, you might want to check out Brian Greene’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos”, a good layman’s summary of modern theoretical physics, or his more technical “The Elegant Universe”.

Anything by Carl Hiaasen, if you’re looking for a laugh. Stephen King if you’re looking for a fright. Baldacci for legal thrillers. These are all mainstream, easy books to get into.

If you like Urban Fantasy, but want a dude book, you can pick up any of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I know Urban Fantasy leans towards the ladies sometimes, but the DF are all guy.

Non-fiction I highly recommend In Defense of Food and the Omnivore’s Dilemma. Oh! almost forgot! The Sex Life of Food!

The Death and Life of Bobby Z or The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. Read these books, trust me.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

It’s hard to recommend a book without some idea of what you like.
If you’re looking for a more typically “guy” book, I’d suggest The Black Company series by Glen Cook. It’s about a band of mercenaries. Technically it’s probably sci-fi, since there is some minor magic, but it’s mostly about a group of men fighting together – about as “manly” as you can get.

Chuck Palahniuk is a fantastic author for ‘guy’ novels; Fight Club, Choke, etc.. Also, Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, although it can be considered a romance novel, is very easy to get into for guys, especially if you’re a big music fan as well. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis is also great. I just realized that all of those have been made into movies, haha.

I agree with Mamradpivo, Haruki Murakami is brilliant, but his novels are an acquired taste, for sure. Last but not least, I recommend this book to everyone on the planet, guy or girl: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Best. Novel. Ever.

But then again, what do I know? I’m a girl… except with guy tastes in novels.

Oh, I forgot: Tom Robbins has some great novels as well. Jitterbug Perfume is amazing.

There’s a marvelous list here from just a week ago.

@bezdomnaya Tom Robbins is fantastic. Jitterbug Perfume is a great book, but I think my favorite is Still Life with Woodpecker. Highly recommended though.

Not The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Twenty pages in and it made me want to punch baby seals. I’m going to have to second Hitchhikker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams had a couple other books, namely Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, both of which are excellent. I’m also reading a book now called Your Inner Fish. It’s all about how you can trace all these similarities of the human body to ancient fish. It’s pretty cool, and super easy reading (but I suppose to be avoided if you don’t believe in evolution. Actually, no. If you don’t believe in evolution, you should read this book. But don’t tell me about what you think.)

Junky by William S. Burroughs

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: Very well written, complex in its philosophy and very fascinating!

anything by hp lovecraft