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I really enjoy Atlas Shrugged as well, I've read the whole book twice, actually. But I don't believe it is a good code to live by.

Infinite Jest

Moby Dick (perhaps a precursor to all modern fantasy?)

Stranger in a Strange Land

East of Eden is my favorite book I've read in the last several years. Beautiful end to end and very moral.

100 years of solitude

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll never Do Again.

I've also loved both of DFW's big essay collections: Consider the Lobster

The Magus by John Fowles

Other favorites: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Read "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner. It is a brautiful book about an intense relationship forged between two couples. It's my favorite thing I've read recently.

In Our Time by Hemingway

it's totally worth reading Journal of a Novel: a collection of letters Steinbeck wrote to his editor every day as he was writing East of Eden.