any thing I might want to checkout?
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; every paragraph is a piece of art, with even greater overarching beauty, but this makes it pretty dense
John Dies at the End - David Wong; easy to read, hard to put down; amusing, suspenseful, great flow - one of my most widely recommended books
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky; deals with light and heavy issues in a stimulating way; also a rather easy read
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski; set up in documentary format with extremely strange and variable formatting; three or four stories may be going on at the same time; must-read if you love footnotes
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Friedrich Nietzsche; very interesting philosophy, and more engaging than most, though if you haven't read any philosophy before you might want to look up some basic readings on the internet
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil; nonfiction about the advance of technology; it's not technical, so you don't need much previous knowledge; has a lot of really neat ideas about computers and robots as well as the current human body; something you'll want to read in bits and pieces, not run through cover to cover, most likely
Most of these are popular enough that you can find them at your local library, and if not, all but a couple can be purchased more cheaply than many of the other recommendations in this thread.