Looking for some good books. Books I have already read: Slaughterhouse-five (fucking awesome), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Odyssey, Lolita, Ender's Game, House of Leaves, I'm probably forgetting something, oh yeah Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (also fucking awesome).
Read more vonnegut, he is a genius:
Breakfast of Champions and
Cat's Cradle are both excellent. I will also second Battle Royale, and will add
V For Vendetta the graphic novel as good shit. The first and last 100 pages of the Iliad are worth reading if you like the odyssey.
If youre willing to put the time into reading it, the Wheel of Time series is unbelievably well crafted, it is the only fantasy that I can really read anymore and take seriously, the world created is more real than like the shit you read about in nonfiction.
If you like socialist themes (you said you like slaughterhouse-five) then Barbara Kingsolver's
The Lacuna is excellent. Also if you like Punk-rock, Patti Smith's book
Just Kids is imo the best thing written in the last year, it chronicles her adolescence in New York during the 60's and 70's. It won the National Book Award in 2010.
@levitatinglamprey: The pheonix manga by tezuka, if you can find it wherever you live, i had to have a friend buy them for me in NY. I generally find most manga to be utter shit in terms of being meaningful, this manga is one of the few that has a 'message' if you will