Stuff I like to read.

I present these in no particular order. Some are genuinely important but most are not.

I just started re-reading Possession by A.S. Byatt. It's a great story.
Anything by Flannery O'Connor. Be sure to get The Habit of Being, which is a collection of her letters. Also look for Mystery and Manners, essays and lectures about literature.
Anything by Roy Blount, Jr. I didn't read his novel but all his collections of magazine pieces are great. His new Book of Southern Humor will keep you busy for a while,too.
Molly Ivins.
W.C. Fields By Himself, An Intended Autobiography was written by a relative of his. It is drawn from his papers and bills itself as the autobiography he would've written. It's very good.
S.J. Perelman.
Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx. Also look for the collected letters of Groucho and the book that contains scripts for Flywheel, Beagle, and Flywheel. (F as in fly, l as in liar, y as in why not, wheel as in wheel cutlet).
Hunter S. Thompson.
I like Pat Conroy although I have only read The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides.
Fran Lebowitz.
Miss Manner's Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. No, really.
Mark Twain.
Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Or any of his other stuff.
Other Worlds by Paul Davies, an easy to follow look at some pretty far out physics.
Chaos by James Gleick. The cutting edge of New Math.