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Different from Current reading. Which books would you like to get through or check out this summer? Which do you recommend to others?

I'm checking out:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Cold Mountain
House of Leaves
The Cold Six Thousand
Schindler's List
Hawking's The Theory of Everything
The Dream of Scipo
LOTR: TTT and ROTK
This Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series
If Chins Could Kill
and I want to get through Kavalier and Clay again.

I recommend:

American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story

Preacher(graphic novel) trade paperbacks by Garth Ennis.

Sandman (graphic novel) trade paperbacks by Neil Gaiman.

Watchmen by Alan Moore

From Hell by Alan Moore

More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll 1947-1977 by James Miller

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mythology by Edith Hamilton OR Bullfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bullfinch

The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison

The Illuminatus Trilogy (available in one volume) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

Nightmares and Dreamscapes (short story collection) by Stephen King

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Alienist/The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

The Perfect Storm

My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson

Celluloid Mavericks by Greg Merrit

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Vampire$ by John Steakly