30 Days of Night. This is when vampires were cool and did not sparkle in the sun.

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Book/dp/1401359795
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Watch-Book-2/dp/1401360203/
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Watch-Book/dp/1401360211/ (safe)
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Watch-Book/dp/1401309275/

The Hunger Games. It's an awesome book (and series), and very easy to get into, as long as you don't mind present tense writing. Everyone I know who has read it has absolutely loved it.

Forgot about those, good stuff. :thumbsup:

I bet Neuromancer would be a great book too, if only the book had annotations of the made up technical words Gibson uses.

Anything by P.G Wodehouse.

Can't believe I didn't think of this earlier: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/search?searchTerm=Larry+Correia&search=search. Monster Hunter International is a great place to start.

Black Library series, The Horus Heresy(Sci Fi)

I was going to risk saying that, but I've only read Triffids and "The Chyrsalids", both excellent books though.


Somebody suggested Do Androids, but I'd say stay away from P.K dike until you've got into reading a little bit more. I love the man myself, but I know his books can baffle some people.

Anything by Iain M Banks, China Mieville or Douglas Adams.

Reading Neuromancer for the first time (I think I was around OP's age) thoroughly confused me, so I didn't bother recommending it. The atmosphere in it is is amazing, though.

In search of lost time, Proust. Might aswell jump in the deep end.