• Religions of the Stars: What Hollywood Believes and How It Affects You (Richard Abanes)
• Sea Change
• The Shack?

By Nicholas Sparks

• The Lucky One
• The Choice
• Dear John
• At First Sight
• True Believer
• Three Weeks With My Brother (non-fiction)
• The Wedding
• The Guardian
• Nights in Rodanthe
• A Bend in the Road
• The Rescue
• A Walk To Remember
• Message In a Bottle
• The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks' answers to the question: "What one novel would I recommend?"

• For a man: Gates of Fire (Stephen Pressfield)
• For a woman: Handyman (Linda Nichols)
• The Night Inspector (Frederick Busch)
• The Palace Thief (Ethan Canin)
• The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
• Tell No One (Harlan Coben)
• The Killing Kind (John Connelly)
• The Caveman's Valentine (George Dawes Green)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
• The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
• Los Alamos (Joseph Kanon)
• Hart's War (John Katzenbach)
• To Dance with the White Dog (Terry Kay)
• Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
• Bloodsucking Fiends (Christopher Moore)
• Early from the Dance (David Payne)
• The Emperor's General (James Webb)
• The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

EDIT And more recommendations by Sparks

• Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises),
• Steinbeck (Cannery Row, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath),
• Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov),
• Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations),
• Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn),
• Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet),
• Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel),
• Mitchell (Gone with the Wind),
• Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby),
• Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility)
• Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five),
• Ellison (Invisible Man),
• Heller (Catch-22),
• Salinger (Catcher in the Rye),
• Knowles (A Separate Peace),
• Cheever (Bullet Park),
• Nabokov (Lolita),
• Golding (Lord of the Flies),
• Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird).
• Cervantes,
• Montaigne,
• Milton,
• Tolstoy,
• Dante,
• Chaucer,
• Nietzsche,
• Kafka,
• Chekhov,
• Wilde,
• The Brontë sisters,
• Flaubert,
• Proust, B
• alzac or
• Hugo.
• I think Don Quixote is the best novel of all time, while the complete works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac and Proust are unrivaled.
• (check out the Penguin Classics!),
• Saul Bellow and
• Wallace Stegner.
• Start with The Victim and Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow or
• The Spectator Bird and Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg or
• John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra? Or
• James Agee’s A Death in the Family.
• Frederick Busch,
• Ethan Canin,
• Michael Chabon,
• Tom Clancy,
• Pat Conroy,
• Nelson DeMille,
• John Grisham,
• Carl Hiaasen,
• John Irving,
• Joseph Kanon,
• Jonathan Kellerman,
• Stephen King,
• Dean Koontz,
• Christopher Moore,
• Richard North Patterson,
• David Payne,
• J.K. Rowling,
• Scott Turow,
• and Tom Wolfe
• William Coughlin,
• Michael Crichton,
• and James Michener
• Agatha Christie