i might as well put in my two cents worth

A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway

anything by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Less than Zero)

Antigone - Sophocles

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

The Puppet Masters - Robert Heinlein

Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose

Maybe you're not an ugly human, but a good looking ape.....with exceptional verbal skills.