You should read this stuff

In no particular order:

• The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen
  
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchet
• At the Sign of the Naked Waiter by Amy Herrick
  
• In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
• Don't Bet On the Prince by Jack Zipes
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies & Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
• Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Schermer
  
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Leonardo's Mountain of Clams & the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
• Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Brightness Reef by David Brin
  

(Note: the links are for more info only. Buy them at your local bookshop. Or, better yet, get them from the library.)