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The book that made the largest impact on my life was called "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn. This is an often overlooked masterpiece which is very emotionally effective (I think good lit should be) but if you don't want your emotions torn apart I wouldn't recommend it. It really starts getting good after the first 50-80 pages. Also, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon is a great novel which won the Pulitzer a few years back. Another really good book is The Echo Maker by Richard Powers. If you want to be hooked on a book that you will never forget read one of these three and post an update when finished to tell everyone how amazing they are.