Of you like Sci-fi then read The Jaunt by Stephen King. A short story in a collection of others. Other than that I've been on a Hemmigway kick for some reason.
Watership Down - i read this like every 10 years. All time favorite novel. Works on so many levels. Guns Germs and Steel - finally explains why white people aren't that awesome and how survival of the fittest has nothing to do with being the best or better, most of the time it's just random.
On of the things he talks about is the incredible logistics involved. My Dad was in the Quartermaster Corp, so that rang hone with me. Here's an excerpt... Armed guards from ten cartography depots escorted 3,000 tons of maps for D-Day alone, the first of 210 million maps that would be distributed in Europe ... Site won't let me link, just Google it.
It took a second reading for me to get JLS, I was a bit too cynical the first time I read it. But when I opened my mind a little and re-read it, I was into it. The way I saw it eventually was not like "I'm magic, so worship me." He was saying, "Hey look, any of us can be this way, let's all do it together." Lovely message.
Lots of great R'n'R books but my favorite is by Dave Marsh called "The Heart of Rock & Soul". Subtitle is The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made and he writes mini-reviews of each.
"The Chronicles of Amber" is a series of fantasy novels by American author Roger Zelazny, consisting of ten volumes. The series narrates the power struggles within the mystical realm of Amber, the true world from which all other worlds, including our own, are mere shadows or reflections.