If there is one book that you really should read b4 u die.

Read a book whose author is ur Creator. Read the Holy Quran. Believe me. Just try once. There r so many books u read. So just try reading the book from the Heaven.

If God has created u then He knows what u need.

May Allaah guide us all. Ameen.

and of course anything by Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain, and some of Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore.

For business, though, am reading Groundswell.

If you like fantasy, one of the best books you can read is, in my opinion, “The Talisman” by King & Straub. You can also pick something from Neil Gaiman.

If you like fact finding and journalism, “Gomorra” by Roberto Saviano is worth a read.

Last but not least, some of my favourites books I recently read were from spanish writers: “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and “Cathedral of the Sea” by Ildefonso Falcones.

Have a good read !

“Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits.”

Ha! Ha! I’m buying this one!!

Give it a try.

World War Z is a great book, yes. And so are Fight Club, Bright Lights Big City, Less Than Zero and The Beach.

And that’s the problem with that Telegraph list that Mark recommended, and as he earlier suggested, all lists of this kind - they tend to focus on the accepted, safe classics as opposed to those books that might be a little controversial or edgy.

Classics are, of course, often classic for a reason. But sometimes that reason is simply because the prose or author’s style is ideal for literary analysis. It does not necessarily mean that the narrative is something that one is going to learn from, nor does it of course mean that because it is accepted as a great piece of work that everybody in the world is going to enjoy reading it.

I must admit scanning through that Telegraph list I get the feeling that it’s all exceedingly safe and predictable. I propose that this might be a slightly better list, at least for us men folk:

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

But, again, there’s an enormous focus on the accepted great and very little risk taken by the author.

And Interview With The Vampire is absolutely worth a read, Mark. I personally wouldn’t recommend anything else by Anne Rice, though.

Is it a ‘must read’? No. But no book is. Not one.

Other books I’d have to recommend… ‘The Poisonwood Bible’, ‘1984′,’The Devils’(by that Russian dude who’s name I won’t attempt to spell and can’t be bothered looking up) The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Paradise Lost, Catch 22, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Though the Looking Glass, The Life of Pi.