What are some great mind-blowing books ?

David Foster Wallace's comic tome satirizes the pursuit of happiness in America. "Infinite Jest" takes place in a near-future North America comprised of a unified Mexico, United States and Canada. Corporations bid for the naming rights of each calendar year.

Cormac McCarthy creates a post-apocalyptic world in "The Road." A father and his young son must travel across the scorched Earth in a supermarket cart looking for refuge from the impending harsh winter. In addition to lack of resources, the father and son must also dodge cannibals, which most survivors of the apocalypse have become.