All right, we have three books (and I'm taking the liberty of changing the third one from the series that was suggested into the first book of that series).

All three books are described by the nominators in this thread here and they're all fine choices.

Sorry for the delay and tardiness, I've just been busy moving houses.

Wow, it's a three-way draw...
I guess that's a first, as far as I've seen it.

I'm going to use a random number generator to break this tie (a number modulo 3), and post the result in the Nov-Dec thread. Thanks to all who voted.