Till We Have Faces.

Not a series, but stephen pressfield wrote a few outstanding historic fiction novels.
Last of the the Amazons and The Afghan Campaing being two of them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Definitely ASoIaF.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Millenium trilogy.

I've just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's good so far, but having just been addicted to G.R.R Martin's work, the writing style is much, much drier.

For me it's The Wars of Light and Shadow, written by [s/]Hamburger Witt's[/s] (stupid phone auto correct) Janny Wurts, by a considerable margin. They're definitely the most well written books I've ever read (no one describes acts of grand conjury quite like Janny Wurts), and the story line is not your typical "evil lord wants to takeover the world, good guy(s) fight bad guys, overcome obstacles etc." It's wonderfully grey, and to me it's a perfect metaphor for how humanity is either destroying the world indirectly (pollution etc.), or directly (nuclear weapons), whilst acknowledging the hope there is in love and blind compassion.

After reading The Wars of Light and Shadow I didn't think much to The Wheel of Time.

A close second is the collaboration Wurts did with Raymond E Feist, a trilogy set during the Riftwar saga on (the planet that invades Midkemia). Can't for the life of remember the name.

I need to get round to reading Pratchett and ASOIAF.

The C Programming Language - Second Edition.

So concise. So clear. So efficient!

... but I guess nobody but a programmer would actually enjoy it. :\

Justine by Marquis de Sade
Songs of Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont
Yertle the Turtle by Dr Seuss

In the second book, there is about ten pages describing how Lisabeth arranges her new Ikea purchases.

I completely forgot about that & I thought they did well with the movie too

+1

Oh and of course the Amazing Adventures of Yougivingmelipboy? are also a great read.

The Horus Heresy Series

LOL

It seems like Larsson's descriptive writing is undoubtedly practical and industrious.

I might try to read the LOTR series after I'm done ASOIAF. I was younger when I tried to read it.

I just finished the Discworld novel Monstrous Regiment. I have to say this is one my favourites so far.

Fantasy-wise both A Song of Ice and Fire and the various Discworld books are high on my list.

The books that have influenced me the most are mostly works of philosophy, and I also enjoy the novels of Haruki Murakami a lot.

I'm about ten pages away from finishing it for the third time. Great book. I'm probably going to read a City Watch book after, possibly Night Watch or Thud!.

No matter how many times I try, I just cannot get through the Lord of the Rings books. They're just so... dense and rather dull in some areas compared to the fantasy I'm used to. Like the Hobbit though, that's a fun book.

I really liked both the Darren Shan and Alex Rider series' when I was a little younger, alongside the obvious answers of LOTR and Harry Potter.

Ah, I forgot about those! I loved both of them. Especially Darren Shan.

Mm, I'm tempted to re-read them when I get the chance. Preffered the Vampire series to the Demonata one though. I don't think I ever got around to finishing the latter.

I agree. I got about 3-4 books in to the Demonata and then I grew up. They were a bit too silly for my liking. The Vampire's assistant books were actually pretty mature for young readers.

Yeah I'd agree with that, although I read them at a younger age so maybe that's skewed my perception. I thought they had much better characters, and the plot twist at the end was awesome.