I don't really read a lot of fiction... though I do have some favorites... "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a great bit, and a great lesson; though in novels I'm very fond of The Stranger. The final passage is one of the best things ever written;
Quote Originally Posted by Albert Camus
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself — so like a brother, really — I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I completely empathize.

Mostly though I read non-fiction.

I'm quite fond of Sex, Time, and Power. Its a clever thesis that the peculiarly human sapience we're all so proud of is the result of menstruation, along with the attendant conjecture that women attained sapience before men. I buy a copy for every woman who earns my respect.

I love The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Of all political philosophers, I think that Malcolm X espoused the ideas I find most livable. In a similar vein, Goldman's Anarchism. Orwell's writings from Burma are never far from my mind.

Finally, anything written by Feyerabend, though especially Against Method. A lot of people seem to like to crib off of Hempel, Popper, & Kuhn when discussing the history & philosophy of science; I don't know where they were educated but the simple truth is they're sophists. Feyerabend is the only author who has the intellectual courage to deconstruct science-as-it-is.