Read the classics. Life is too short to read all the really good stuff... so why consume stale fish and moldy pototos?

For pure entertainment value these are tops on my list, and I have read them several times:

Count of Monte Cristo (revenge ten fold)

Jean Val Jean (the 1,100 page condensed version of Les Misrables)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (what a shocker)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer

Swiss Family Robinson

Invisable Man

Anderson's and Grimm's Fairy Tales (unabridged)

Tess of de Ubberville 0R Mayor of Castlebridge

The Arabian Nights

Jungle Book

Dracula

Edgar Allen Poe short stories

Don Quixote

Treasure Island

The Reivers

Oliver Twist

Grapes of Wrath / Cannery Row

(At the moment I have just finished a large collection of Kipling short-stories, also a "cancer auto-biography" written by a childhood friend ((that damns the HMO's and diagnoisis delays,)) and have begun reading Madam Bovary and Kidnapped.)

Sincerely,
Gargoyle