[Red Sage]

Wow, I have a lot of favorite books and authors. If I had to narrow it down, however, I can probably think of two books I would read over and over again without tiring of them

Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton. This guy is really good at writing thriller novels but almost always adds a very sophisticated scientific background to them. This one is so famous because it still remains the best written premise and plot he has ever created. I feel awkward explaining what seems to me common knowledge, but for anyone who by some unlucky chance has never heard about it, the book is about a group of people who become trapped on an island that was intended to be a dinosaur theme park--that used real dinosaurs cloned from blood in amber-frozen mosquitoes. Lots of suspense, and dinosaurs, and science, and blood, and awesomeness. Some of his novels may be better, but this one will always have a special place in my heart.

The second is And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. I was a murder mystery fan at some point, and again I find this book very psychologically captivating. Basically it puts Ten people who were indirectly murderers at some point in their troubled pasts on an island (what is it with me and islands, lol?) with no escape, and each of them start dying, one by one in ways that remarkably resemble a poem called ten little indians, and yet they have no idea which, if any, of them is doing the killing. I won't give away the ending, but it's really, really good.

So those are my favorite fiction books. Nonfiction, I'd probably say something like Chaos or Fingerprints of the Gods, but I'm certain you guys wouldn't be as interested in that stuff...