Hi y'all.
I expect that there are some shared values in the literary sense, and I'm sure other people want to know what to add to their list next. I can only handle so many co-worker raves about murder mysteries. Suggestions?

Just a few of my favorites in no particular order:

Anything by Oscar Wilde
Guests of the Sheik, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
An Indian Attachment, Sarah Lloyd
Anything by Douglas Adams
God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
various field guides of the Pacific Northwest

Edit (will probably grow as I think of them):
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
Ian Fleming

Ooh, good topic! I'm always looking for new and awesome books to read, so I have the feeling I'll be checking this thread quite often!

Douglas Adams, for sure. My favorite is The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Best book I ever had to read for school!
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. A must-read for fantasy fans. The sequel's out March 1st!
The Celestial Steam Locomotive by Michael Coney.
The Planet Masters by Allen Wold.
The Android's Dream and Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
And of course, Robert A. Heinlein. I really need to read more of his work.

I love me some Douglas Adams!

Also:
Anything by David Foster Wallace (almost at the end of Infinite Jest! And have pre-ordered The Pale King)
He Died With a Falafel In His Hand by John Birmingham (creepily familiar to anyone who's lived in an Aussie sharehouse)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (which is technically a kids' book, but awesome anyway. Bonus points for having strong lady-characters. I want to hide a bunch of copies inside Twilight covers and sneak them into the chain bookstores)

I love...

The Book Theif by Paul Zuzak
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
anything by Margaret Atwood
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Books that I always rec. to people?

- Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Cold Montain by Charles Frazier
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
- The Graduate by Charles Webb
- In the Pond by Ha Jin
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Unaccustomed To Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

And for light-hearted fun reading with a supernatural touch:

The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
The Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

Some of my favourites are

Anything by Juliet Marillier, she's brilliant, I love all her books.
Garth Nix - Lirael - Sabriel- Abhorsen
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's legacy series
Trudi Canavan - Age of the white series
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Terry Goodkind
JRR Tolkien too of course

Yes I looove fantasy

@puxe: Oh, I second Oscar Wilde!

I also love most books by Paul Auster dearly. I read 'Invisible' a few months ago and thought it was one of the best books I'd ever picked up!

Douglas Coupland! Especially Girlfriend in a Coma, Hey Nostradamus! and Eleanor Rigby (and, of course, Generation X)

Uhm...currently I love children's books. Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton (school stories=win) classics and...well...Sweet Valley. Yep I said it.

Oooh! I love book recommendations! I love any thing by:

* Kurt Vonnegut
* Joyce Carol Oates
* David Sedaris (duh)
* Tim Winton
* Michael Ondaatje
* Bill Bryson

P.S. Why hasn't Tina Fey written a book yet?!

Looks like I have more books to add to my never ending list of "to be read!". Thanks

Here are a few of my recommendations:
Non-Fiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot *AMAZING* Finished a few weeks ago.
Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Seabold (author who wrote The Lovely Bones)
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction
The Glass House series by Rachel Caine (good for light supernatural reading)
Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio (soooo much better than the movie!)
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy (interpretation of the folk tale, set in WWII. one of my favourites!)
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Perfect Nightmare by John Saul (twisted horror - pretty disturbing)
The Bonemender by Holly Bennett (local author, but you may be able to find her? It's YA fantasy, there are 3 books. It's really well written)

That's all I can think of for now!