I really like these threads. If I can find a book or two that I really liked in someone else's list, I can be pretty confident that I will like it too.
Here are mine; I may edit this post later as more occur to me:
- Sherlock Holmes (all of them), by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Lord of the Rings, by: J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Bachman Books, by Stephen King
- The Count of Monte Christo, by Alexandre Dumas
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- short stories, by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
I'm sure Tolkien will be a popular one. For those of you who liked LoTR and The Hobbit, look into his short stories. I bought one book, I can't recall the exact title, but it had 'green' in it, and I remember really liking it. I couldn't get through The Silmarillion though.