Some Books I Have Enjoyed:
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein
The City and the Stars (a.k.a. Against the Fall of Night), by Arthur C. Clarke
The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, and Tortilla Flat, all by John Steinbeck
all of the Doctor Dolittle books by Hugh Lofting
most of the Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Phillip Jose Farmer
all of the Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau
The “Elvis Cole” mysteries, by Robert Crais (love the audiobook versions!)
The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, by Judd Winick
The “Eyebeam” books by Sam Hurt