What's something you think everyone should read?

Repair and service manual to their vehicle, whether it be a bicycle or a Rolls Royce. READ IT, even if you never touch the thing... people need to have a greater understanding of the devices that could possibly get them killed.

Atlas Shrugged

@lamb & still sleeping - there's a lot of value in all of that.

@namrok - shorter Ayn Rand works won't do?

@le sacre - Player Piano is the Vonnegut I recommend, but Slaughterhouse Five definitely is haunting.

player piano is so different!  and it does have some valuable material and is well written, but i feel like the "everyone should read" list ought to be representative both of Vonnegut's mature writing style and of his fully fleshed-out take on the universe's absurdity.

daniel quinn's ishmael.

it's an interesting look at environmental theory and the human race. it's actually part of a trilogy- ishmael, my ishmael and the story of b.

also there's a monkey!

well, an ape. but still.

@AArtaud: Wow. I wish I knew all that stuff. I can definitely say this though, any two of those works would make a lot of us - including myself - way smarter.

and for a lot of the book, the formatting goes...well, abnormal.

Eating the Cheshire Cat. A boy even told me it was good. It's kind of heathers meets heavenly creatures. It's just really fine and fucked up. You can't put it down.