I'm doing a summer book list with my girl friend who's in China right now. We each picked 5 books then conjointly chose 5 books to finish by August.

•Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

•Drown - Junot Diaz

•Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

•Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

•Dracula - Bram Stoker

•Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

•Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

•Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

•Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka

•Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

•Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

•Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Neitzsche

•Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

•Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges

•[Undecided]

You can kind of see where out tastes begin to divulge. I prefer something more transcendental while she prefers something more visceral. I've been on an economics binge recently and have read 'Manufacturing Consent', 'Death of the Liberal Class', and Ludwig Von Mises' ' Planned Chaos' along with different Economics text books.

I highly recommend 'The Brother Karamazov' by Dostoevsky. It is what got me into existential thinking in the first place.