Orson Scott Card is a great author, I like a lot of his work.

Douglas Adams makes me laugh like mad.

I'll give some authors, since I don't have any books in particular.

Stephen King
David Baldacci
Anne Rice
Tom Clancy
Patricia Cornwell

Gulliver's Travels.
Lord of the Flies.
Stuff by Brian Jacques and Orson Scott Card.

I read Lord of the Flies for school. It was boring and lame, and I didn't think it had ANY redeeming qualities.

Seconded.

I did like Anthony Horrowitz's Alex Rider series, before they got bad. Or I got less dumb. Probably the latter.

Best trilogy ever: the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are pretty interesting. Neil Gaiman has some really great books as well, particularly American Gods.

The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher are pretty fun reads, if not particularly deep. For deep and long, try out Neal Stephenson. Also Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card, but you guys knew that already.

I'm trying out the Godspeaker trilogy by Karen Miller, if only due to its superficial similarities to the aformentioned Night Angel trilogy (3-part tale of a young person's rise from the dregs of society to hero/heroine). It's pretty good so far.

What noo

I thought it was great.

Seconded!
LotF is fantastic!
And no, it's not supposed to be redeeming.

It's been so long since I read Harry Potter. That used to be amazing, like Alex Rider.

Also Barry Trotter. Shorter than the Harry Potter series or your money back.

1984, and Fahrenheit 451.
The Redwall series. (made for younger audiences than myself, but still amazing!)
I'm sorry to whoever doesn't like Dan Brown, (I can't remember who >_<) but I Absolutely loved Angels and Demons.Yes, The Da Vinci code was massively overhyped, (and imo his worst book) but he is overall a good writer. I LOVE The Hitchhikers Guide series.

Terry Pratchett, although I'm sure he must have already been mentioned a dozen times.
I own his entire collection, but unfortunately need to leave them at my parents' house while I'm out at Uni because carting that many books to and fro would be very inconvenient ):
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, mentioned already earlier, are also pretty good if you like comedic fantasy although it is very different to the Discworld universe.
I've also recently enjoyed some of the books written by Charles Stross, which are very similar to the above series in many ways.

I also like the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton, although these are much more serious than the others I mentioned :V

Commonwealth? Isn't that the one with the airplanes having sex?

You've piqued my interest. Tell me more about this planesex.

Well I read a couple chapters. So basically they have these jet fighter space planes that are sentient and bond with only 1 person or something like that. They're probably made of nanobots or something I can't remember. And then like the first or second chapter is them mating and making little space ships. The protagonist is freaking out like it's his first LSD trip "most beautiful thing evaaar maaaaaan".

And then I closed the book. It's basically a cross between Avatar and one of those maternity shows on TLC.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
John Grisham's the pelican brief.
Demons and Angels [forget the author].
Ranger's Apprentice is more of a middle school thing but its probably the least cheesy and most interesting fantasy imo.