adopt your own virtual pet!
People, animals, small fish...I'm not really that picky...
Anything by Richard Bachman..and most by Stephen King. The Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton. The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud. The Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. The Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice.