Originally Posted by Hiro

So many books, so little time! Some of my favorites:

Tokien - Duh!
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Stephen Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Ray Bradbury - Farenheight 451 (no it's not a Michael Moore movie!), Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stephen King - Dark Tower Series
Steinbeck - East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath
Shakespeare - Pick one

There are more but that's a good start.

Whoever it was the asked - Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 - a brilliant book.