I had asked for a listing of books and here they are so far. I have a wonderful range of tastes in my friends. (Two Years Before the Mast, Moby Dick, and Caine Mutiny I added myself - hey I am my own friend after all)

1- Claudia
Brett Holmstrom

2-A Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin

3-The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells

4-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Lewis Stevenson

5-The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

6-Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs

7-A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

8-The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

9-Annie’s Girl
Maureen Coppinger

10-A Good House
Bonnie Burnard

11-Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Ekstein

12-Gold Compass Trilogy
Phillip Pullman

13-The Twilight Series (Vampire Books)
Stephanie Meyer

14-Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff

15-Freakomics
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

16-Moby Dick
Herman Melville

17-Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana, Jr

18-The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk

19-The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

20-The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley

21-The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

22-The Lamb
Christopher Moore

23-The Listening Book – Discovering Your Own Music.
W.A. Mathieu