"O the places you'll go" by Dr Seuss - it has a good message and it rhymes, win win!
Best book must be
Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Talkin
Rites of Passage, William Golding.
there are sooooo many and quite a few already listed such as "oh the places you'll go" and "the alchemist" but my fav would have to be Lord of the rings by John Ronald Ruell Tolkin it was voted book of the millenium which is pretty good since europeans only started publishing books in the 15th century and that was that damn king james bible
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Scar Tissue - Kiedis
I cannot believe that I am the first to put this one !
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
An amazing satire on war and life !
'Life of Pi', by Yann Martel