[ OT ] What are some of your all time favorite books ?

Lord, what to put here? 
 
 *On The Beach* - Nevil Shute: What do you do when the rest of the world has committed suicide and you're simply waiting to die? Why, you live your life as you would, only it gets increasingly harder as time goes on. There's a particular scene involving parents discussing killing their infant child to spare them the horrors of radiation poisoning; it affected me so much I nabbed it for my first novel. 
 
 *Outer Dark* - Cormac McCarthy: A child is born to a brother and sister and abandoned in the woods. The child is rescued by a tinker. The sister goes after the tinker. The brother goes after the sister. Behind the brother, a band of murderers stalks and kills everything in their path. Possibly the darkest book I've ever read, aside from *The Road* ( and for a similar reason ). 
 
 *Into The Forest* - Jean Hegland: A father brings his daughters to live in a house in the woods outside of town. Then the economy collapses, and not `` oh it's 2008 and the banks are failing'' collapses, `` end of civilization in America'' collapses. The sisters learn that they have to rely on each other in order to survive. Features a *very* controversial section that I've always found rather beautiful, but some find really, really offensive. 
 
 *Neuromancer* - William Gibson: Dark, stylish, and cutting-edge, even today when the technology is laughably outdated ( a character gets killed over a few MBs of RAM? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ). 
 
 *The Sheep Look Up* - John Brunner: Never will you be so grateful for clean air and clean water as you will be when you finish reading this book. Jesus Christ it scares the shit out of me, and it should scare the shit out of you too. 
 
 *The Grapes of Wrath* - John Steinbeck: More people in this brave post-OWS world need to pick up Steinbeck. I often wonder what he'd think of the modern world, and I feel that he would be utterly fucking disgusted with what he saw. 
 

