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My personal recommendation list:

Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by JRR Tolkein
(and that's about it... Don't read much fantasy)

Science Fiction
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
Have Space Suit, Will Travel, by Robert Heinlein
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The "Gaunt's Ghosts" series of Warhammer 40,000 novels, by Dan Abnett
The "Ciaphas Cain" series of Warhammer 40,000 novels, by Sandy Mitchell
The "Grand Admiral Thrawn" trilogy of Star Wars novels, by Timothy Zahn
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Dune, by Frank Herbert (and maybe the first two or three sequels, too)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
World War Z, by Max Brooks

Other Fiction
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
All The King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Blue Max, by Jack Hunter
The Odyssey, by Homer
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver's Travels, by Johnathan Swift
Shogun, by James Clavell

Nonfiction / Biography
Pretty much anything about World War II or the American Civil War
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, by Capt. Charles Johnson
The Beatles, by Bob Spitz
Caesar's Commentaries (on the Gallic and Civil Wars)
The Histories, by Herodotus
The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius

Politics, Religion, and Philosophy
The Gospel of John
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (translated by Samuel B. Griffith)
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (translated by Stephen F. Kaufman)

Poetry
"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
"Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of these are books that I've read at least in part; I haven't included the dozens upon dozens of books that I've wanted to read but haven't gotten to yet.
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