i'll preface this with the acknowledgment that I am a high school English Teacher, so it's my job to read Lit. type books (although, lots of you know this stuff is the goods anyway) Recently read: The Invisible man by Ralph Ellison and Light in August by William Faulkner currently reading: Hard Times by Charles Dickens - I hate Dickens---I may never finish this book, but i'm not giving in "The Bear" by William Faulkner---a challenge just because I'm sick of the tweed and pipe set saying " you'vr never read The Bear?" Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien - the Master of Vietnam, really a true American genius...everyone on here would love O'Brien...try it and soon All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Wild Things - Dave Eggers McCarthy and Eggers are my two favorite contemporary writers (well, and George Saunders) so I'm trying to read through everything by the both of them..