Care to recommend some good books ? (non-pd)

[Lohengrin]

I`ve been dedicated so much of my time this last year to all sort of books in personal devolpment. I think it is about time now that i venture back to the more litteraly fiction world.

Just been to the libary. I got Charles Bukowskies Post Office and Ham on the rye. Hunter S. Thompsons The Rum Diaryes and Haruka Murakamis Norwegian Wood.

Both Bukowski and Thompson are what i considerer abit low life, self destructive personnas in the litterary world. But i have an intrest for their sharp and edgy way of writing and that they both refuse to live a life of mediocrity.

So for both me and every other cat that happend to cross this thread. I wonder what books you people care to recomend ?
It doesent have to be fiction, But i am intrested in great story telling. But i could also be Biographies ( Ive never read one before so i am excited if anyone recomends a Biographi)

The reason i do this is that i am myself a storyteller so i need to look into other stories. I am also highly curriouss what PD people read besides PD material.

[this is fun]

I don't know if these would interest you but off the top of my head, I like these:
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Terry Pratchett- Discworld series of comic fantasy
David Lodge -
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a boy
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch
Jorge Luis Borges- Ficciones (in translation)
Per Olov Enquist - Livläkarens besök (Title of the English translation: The Royal Physician's Visit)
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is illuminated
Alessandro Baricco - Silk

non-fiction: Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Blink .

[James81]

I Know this Much is true by Wally Lamb (<--my favorite book at this point)
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Hour I First Believed by Wall Lamb (seeing a patter here? he's fantastic)
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (<--another fantastic book)
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Sean Greer
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (for teh comedy )

There, that should keep you busy for a while.