The belgariad was great when I was a kid, reading about the author was wild though. Don't if you don't want to taint the image.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

It's cliche I suppose, but 1984 by Orwell. It's actually a fucking great read beyond it's thematic meaning. People are correct in saying A Brave New World was more prescient, but it's not as good a book in my opinion.

Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series, all six mainline books and even the side books are all fantastic.

It's manga, but Berserk by Kentaro Miura. IYKYK

Same same, but I do have a hard deadline of the 30th of June for deletion, under the assumption there isn't a massive backpedal.

Same, seeing him blatantly slander the Apollo dev sealed the deal for me. My account is still active, but come June 30th, it's gone.

The quality of his answers, considering the scope of the conversation, was extremely lacking.