Just read "Pirates Latitude" by Michael Crichton which I got for my birthday. Not really into pirate stories, but read it anyway and was well impressed, in fact couldn´t put it down and read it in two days.
It´s well written and you learn a bit about what sailing in the old days was like.
Dunno how he managed to write the book with him being dead though, clever man.
Mine is :
"The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner"The Sound and the Fury, published in October of 1929, was Faulkner's fourth novel--and clearly his first work of genius. Now considered to be one of the strongest American contributions to the fiction of high modernism, it has generated countless critical interpretations. In writing the novel, Faulkner experienced a creative absorption and passion that he was never to forget; he said of The Sound and the Fury, "It's the book I feel tenderest towards. I couldn't leave it alone, and I never could tell it right, though I tried hard and would like to try again, though I'd probably fail again."