some of my favorite authors and their books/writing:

albert camus - most.
aldo leopold - a sand county almanac.
annie dillard - the living.
bill mckibben - all - esp enough.
bruce berger - the telling distance.
bruce chatwin - utz, the songlines, in patagonia
charles dickens - all
chuck palahniuk - the fight club, survivor.
cormac mccarthy - all the pretty horses, no country for old men.
dave hickey - air guitar, the invisible dragon.
david james duncan - the river why.
david mitchell - cloud atlas, number 9 dream.
david quammen - all
david rains wallace - the klamath knot.
david toop - haunted weather, ocean of sound
don delillo - white noise, mao II.
edmund o. wilson - the diversity of life.
edward abbey - all - esp the monkey wrench gang.
ernest callenbach - ecotopia, ecotopia revisited.
eugene zamiatin - we.
franz kafka - most.
geoff dyer - the ongoing moment
george orwell - all
graham greene - all.
gunter grass - the tin drum
gunther grass - all - esp the tin drum.
haruki murakami - esp the wind up bird chronicle.
heinrich boll - most.
henry thoreau - all.
herman hesse - all.
herman melville - all.
howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
j.g. ballard - all - esp crash and concrete island.
j.r.r. tolkein - all.
jack black - you can't win
jared diamond - guns, germs and steel, collapse.
jeremy rifkin - time wars, entropy
jerry mander - in the absence of the sacred, four arguments for the elimination of television.
jim thompson - all.
john kennedy toole - a confederacy of dunces
john mcphee - all - esp encounters with the arch druid.
john muir - all.
john steinbeck - all.
john wesley powell - the exploration of the colorado river and its canyons.
joseph conrad - all esp nostromo, heart of darkness, lord jim.
kazuo ishiguro - never let me go, artist of the floating world, when we were orphans
kirkpatrick sale - rebels against the future.
klaus mann - mephisto
kobo abe - the box man, woman in the dunes.
marc reisner - cadillac desert.
mickey spillane - all.
miguel de cervantes saavedra - don quixote
neal stephenson - cryptonimicon, snow crash
norman maclean - a river runs through it.
peter handke - on a dark night i left my silent house
peter matthiessen - at play in the fields of the lord
phillip k. dick - all.
ralph waldo emerson - all.
raymond carver - all.
redmond o'hanlon - all.
richard brautigan - all - especially trout fishing in america.
sally tisdale - stepping westward.
samuel butler - erewhon
steven saylor the gordianus the finder roman mysteries
susanna clarke - jonathan strange and mr. norrell.
tom robbins - another roadside attraction
tony hillerman - most.
vandan shiva - biopiracy, stolen harvest, water wars.
vladimir nabokov - all.
wallace stegner - beyond the hundredth meridian
william manchester - a world lit only by fire