Wow - what a well read group! Hard to choose but here goes: Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge Gust Front - John Ringo Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Infinity Machine - Sean McMullin Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Patrick Henry - Moses Coit Tyler Churchhill - Roy Jenkins Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon - The Green Mile - Stephen King Watchers -Dean Kontz - Anything by C.S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Sheffield, David Brin, Jack Chalker, or David Webber.