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Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall is quite simply superb. I also very much liked The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet.

The Life of Pi was published nine years ago. It seems to get a lot of flak, but I really enjoyed it. As with Mitchell's Thousand Autumns, I find a little magical realism just the tonic on those cold autumn evenings...

The Forever War - Haldeman

Flowers for Algernon - Keyes

The Prestige - Priest

LoTR - Tolkien

Sphere - Crichton (One of the first "real" books I read as a kid, and was my favorite for years. It isn't the best in the world, but it is an extremely fun page turner and means alot to me)


There are also three books I've read in the last couple of years that I want very badly to say are in my top five (to replace some of those listed above). But it has not been long enough for me to make a decision, and I probably need to re-read them. Those three are:

The Passage - Cronin

Cloud Atlas - Mitchell

Wolf Hall - Mantel

Read Wolf Hall to learn about Henry VIII, the Church of England, Lutheranism, why people fall in love, how to make people do things, how to pull yourself up by the bootstraps, how to flatter powerful people, and more.