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[Reasonableman]

I'm going to go out on a weird limb here and suggest a Nintendo DS game, oddly enough: Hotel Dusk Room 215 is practically a novel, with musics and pitchurs. I liked it rather a lot, even if the plot wasn't spectacularly interesting. In fact, I can't point to any one part of it as particularly good, but the whole thing just struck me as a rather extraordinary experience.

[Cthulhu]

A gang of daggers

Widely considered the greatest novel of the 21st century.  Ignore the hecklers in the thread.


Also:

[Hawkfrost]

I've also read alot of the Forgotten Realms, they are pretty good.
And Drizzt is epic, admit it.

[Pandarsenic]

House of Leaves is an amazing book. So is Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.

[Banzayatc]

I think you already read that, but I'll give a suggestion for a good read anyway. A. Sapkowski's "Witcher" series. A masterpiece, though not very obscure.

[Jackrabbit]

Jackrabbit:
This

Follow the adventures of Arthur Dent recent citizen of Earth, Trillian, also of earth, Ford Prefect of a small planet near Beetleguise, Zafod Beetlebrox of the same area and recent president of the galaxy and Marvin, a manicaly depressed robot.

would have sold me the book, if I hadn't read it already(it's Douglas Adams, actually). Of R.E.Feist(those typos, eh?) I know only 'Betrayal at Krondor'(game=brilliant, book=mediocre). I understand that the magician Pug in both books is the same person? Anyway, I can't get myself to read lenghty series only to realize after flipping last page, that it was the same old story I read dozens of times, with only the setting being different. I read them and next month I forget them. Something in particular makes it stand out from the crowd?

Maybe its not for everyone. I myself couldn't make my way through betrayal at Krondor. Recently started the serpent war saga. Pretty good lizard/demon killing action!

[Strife26]

I'll just suggest Red Storm Rising. Clancy's finest, in my mind.

[Little]

The Running Man, by Richard Bachman.

[Il Palazzo]

Good job folks. These should keep me occupied for a while.
I think I'll go for DJ's choices for their promising complexity, plus 'R&C are dead' for it's appealing humor.
The Black Company, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Algebraist all look somewhat interesting, but they'll have to wait for me getting desperate enough to overcome my disilusioned scepticism.
I happen to own Tai-Pan, but it's been sitting on my bookshelf for years, and I just can't get myself to read it. Perhaps the memory of Shogun's R.Chamberlain in my subcounsciousness is to blame.

[WorkerDrone]

Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks, a fine satire of zombies, and about you getting your flesh eaten and your teeth being used as floss by the undead! fun for the whole family!

[Antioch]

I rather enjoyed the Coldfire Trilogy (though it was a long time ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldfire_Trilogy

[lumin]

This is my favorite book.  It is a direct translation from Hebrew to English by a 24 year old in 1830.  It covers the history of an ancient American civilization from 600 BC to 400 AD.

[Mad Larks]

I can only recommend "Saga of Seven Suns". Why? Because its crammed full of awesome and win.

To mention one of the many things in the series:

There's a human faction that lives with a bunch of trees with its very own mind, capable of instant messaging over vast amounts of space. All thats needed is a tree from the particular treemind species and one of the people from said human faction thats been promoted to a Green Priest.

Go read it. It completely wrecked my sleeping pattern.

[Aqizzar]

One of my new favorite books is The Night Land, by a guy you've never heard of named William Hodgson.  It's a really long cosmic-horror novel from the early 20th century, written in archaic prose with no dialogue.  Some dude is looking for his dead wife and goes on a quest, but it's really about the earth in general, millions of years in the future, after the sun has died and humans have holed up in a crumbling arcology besieged by massive unknowable horrors from the darkness.  If that sounds a little familiar, H.P. Lovecraft counted Night Land and it's sister novel House on the Borderland among his biggest influences.  Best part is, you can read it for free at Project Gutenberg.

For something completely different, if you're looking for entertaining non-fiction you can learn from, I recommend anything by the war-reporter Robert Young Pelton.  The World's Most Dangerous Places got me into politics, and it's a hilarious read with loads of dry, dark humor.  The 5th edition is pretty outdated, since it went to print in 2002, but the 6th is due out sometime in the next year.

[Strife26]

Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks, a fine satire of zombies, and about you getting your flesh eaten and your teeth being used as floss by the undead! fun for the whole family!

I actually just found (and bought) a couple couple of days ago. It was okay, but I have to disagree with a lot of what Mr. Brand stated.