1) Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
2) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3) 1984 - George Orwell

It is absolute genius, and their new series looks to be just as good. For favorite fantasy, it depends on the sub-genre. I love Game of Thrones for swords-and-horses, but for urban fantasy the contenders would have to be the Harry Dresden series and the Rivers of London series. I also love Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. The world of the fae she imagines is brilliant. The latest horror writer I like is Stephen Graham Jones.

I’m not a huge fan of his other works though. Cinder Spires was pretty good but I didn’t care for the next book in that series.

I just love Dresden so much, don't really want to read the other - lesser books.

In the entire series, this book was almost my undoing.

Dune is indeed an epic story!

I think the Shining is so freaking scary, made me stop reading at night, our shrubs rubbed againt the house and totally freaked me out.

Stranger in a Lost Land is one of my all time faves.

There's an old Ursula K LeGuin book, Hammer of Heaven??, can't remember the name, but know it affected me profoundly when I read it decades ago. Unfortunately, I don't have the great memory I used to have.

OK - just thought of another one I have to add - Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series. It's up there with the Tolkein books, which I also forgot before. I am a great reader of fantasy, scifi since I was a child and never stopped.

Yes indeed! Both are great works!

He writes horror with a slightly comedic twist. Horrorstör is, for example, about a haunted IKEA-like store. Who hasn’t felt slightly haunted trying to navigate an IKEA?

I have not read much sf and fantasy lately. I have been reading a lot of nonfiction. I can recommend Joe Abercrombie though. If you have not read him, he is like if Kurosawa wrote a Western Fantasy. GRRM recommended him on his Not a Blog years ago. A good read.