[ OT ] What are some of your all time favorite books ?

I second IAmTheRedWizards' mention of On The Beach - easily one of the most unsettling books I've ever read, and a really convincing dystopia. 
 
 I love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series too - about a woman in an alternate version of England who polices fiction. It's a sort of satire/fantasy mainly based around books and characters from literature - genuinely funny, and clever too. I have yet to find a book that's really anything like it. 
 
 I also love Ian McEwan's A Child In Time, David Mitchell's Ghostwritten ( actually prefer it to Cloud Atlas ), American Gods, A Room With A View, and anything by Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams or Diana Wynne-Jones. 
 
 At the moment, I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled for the second time, and getting a lot out of it. I recently saw it described as one of the'great unreadable books', but I find it fascinating - I love how disconnected and disorienting it is. I think that one ranks somewhere near the top of my list too.
