Can anyone reccomend any good Books to read through?

I have just realized i have not read a great book in a while and i was hoping to read something.

Can anyone recommend any great books to read? I have always enjoyed Comedy and always loved the "Alphabet of Manliness" by Maddox. So if anyone has read this, is there a possibility of recommending any similar funny books? Or just Any Great  books i may have missed out on in General! From any era in time. Old. New. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
 
Thank you!

The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins

You were never a good reader. Hmm. I can't think of any books in particular since the Alphabet of Maniless is really just a parody book. Most books tend to have a story or satire to them. Would you even read those type of books?

Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan is a pretty funny book. A lot of critics compared it to Office Space.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, The Catcher In The Rye, Tess Of The D'Urbevilles, 1984, Wuthering Heights, Brave New World, The Gargoyle, The Wind In The Willows, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Animal Farm, blah, blah, blah...
 
... Pride & Prejudice, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, The Narnia books, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Anthem, Lord Of The Flies, blah, blah, blah.

I am an avid book reader and I have a good one for the fans of fantasy and wolverine.
 
  WOLVERINE: Election Day
 
 Check it out in your local book stores.

I'm pretty sure a majority of these books aren't comedy let alone similiar to the Alphabet on Manliness...they are good excellent books no doubt though.
 
@CornontheCobbe: We told you read more last year. Good to see that you listened!

Depends what kind of book you  like. Something more fantasy-y is the Inheritance cycle-which I adore.

If you are looking for a comedy, have you tried reading the Bible? The funny part is that millions of people think it is not fiction! Sorry i had to.
 

If you like Fantasy at all check out the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R.R Martin; absolutely compelling stuff with extremely well written and realistic characters in [very] politically charged high fantasy setting with only small amounts of magic involved.

" Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan is a pretty funny book. A lot of critics compared it to Office Space. "

Haha. Maybe I'll give that one a go when I'm closer to my deathbed.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby was a wonderful book, mainly because it was something i could relate too, but i still recommend it

Hmmm. I actually just decided to delve back into the depths of Russian literature. Just picked up The Idiot by Dostoevsky, and I'm reading back through the always enjoyable short stories by Gogol (Specifically the Petersburg Stories). Couldn't believe that I'd never read the Idiot, but I'm about to remedy that.
 
I'd recommend any of Dostoevsky's work (Crime and Punishment is a good jumping off point, The Brothers Karamazov is a brilliant story, but it's a tough one to jump right into without any prior knowledge of Dostoevsky), and Gogol is always good for some easy reading with a deep political undercurrent. Tolstoy is always good fun as well. For all of those authors, I'd also suggest the Pevear translations. A lot of people criticise them for being clunky, but I find that they capture the Russian language much more accurately than any other translation to date.

How about some comic books? 
 
I would recommend Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch, Vengeance of The Moon Knight, Cable & Deadpool or Captain America: Reborn, if you like some classic super heroics.  
 
These series are relatively new, 'cept Cable & Deadpool, so you can catch on pretty easily.

One word my friend: Vonnegut.
I would recommend starting with Cat's Cradle or The Sirens of Titan.
Enjoy!

• Zen Mind, Begginer's Mind
• A Brave New World
• The Book of Balance
• Genesis (Sci-Fi book)
  

Read Paradise Lost.  Click on my mini bio to read an excerpt from it.  It is really a fantastic book and the language he uses is phenomenal.  I recommend it to anybody who likes literature.

The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

• The Catcher in the Rye
• 1984
• Atlas Shrugged
• 100 Years of Solitude
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Dickens...Dickens....
  

One Hundred Years of Solitude is an excellent read.

 One Hundred Years of Solitude! My sister was kind of obsessed with that book! Thank you everyone for suggestions, I'm planning on checking out all of these!

Eisenhorn omnibus by Dan Abnett

 
If you don't like sports then don't read my suggestion: 
Bill Simmons is by far my favorite sports journalist, and you can read some of his work over at ESPN.com, and he recently just wrote a 700 page book about basketball.  Originally named The Book of Basketball, now it was just released, and I haven't read it yet, but just based on the exerpts that I read over on ESPN and just the way his articals are written, I am pretty sure that this book will be good.  Don't worry about the length of the book, it is divided up into easy to read chapters, and its not like you will need to remember characters... these were some of the biggest stars of basketball at the time.  For anyone that is just a fan of sports in general, I recommend this book, Simmons has a way of expressing the views of the fan.

Here are a few suggestions from different genres:

• Catch-22
• Breakfast of Champions
• The Power and the Glory
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  
• World War Z
• Predictably Irrational
• Graphic Novels/Comics: Local, Y: The Last Man, Scott Pilgrim, WonTon Soup
  

If you actually manage to read all of these books...I wouldn't even know what to say let alone now.

Anatomy of Melancholy, anything by Dostoevsky, Gogol's Dead Souls, Melmoth the Wanderer, Don Quixote, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Monk, Clermont: A Tale, Shelley's Frankenstein, Euripedes ..

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

" One word my friend: Vonnegut. I would recommend starting with Cat's Cradle or The Sirens of Titan. Enjoy! "

I have just finished 1984 today and you must must read it.

Any that are done by Richard A. Knaak or Halo The Fall of Reach. Its whats pushing Halo Reach