I've read very few novels in my life, and those that I have read are philosophical in nature, such as Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, Lord of the Flies, The Stranger, Animal Farm, The Old Man and the Sea, Steppenwolf, and Gulliver's Travels. This one is very good. Here is an obituary of its author, Robert Pirsig, who died this past Monday. Here is another.