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Graeystone:
Bible.
Anything by Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, Pre-2000 Stephen King(except for later Dark Tower books)

Devgil:
Any of the books in Heralds of Valdemar world by Mercedes Lackey (this currently ecompasses seven trilogies, five stand-alone novels and three anthologies with more on the way).

Seconding the anything by Clark, Asimov, Tolkein and Lewis and adding David Weber with the new saga he's been churning out over the past through years (four books and no sign of stopping) as well as his earlier works (Honorverse and Dahak Series). I would also recommend his collaberations with Steve White and Eric Flint.

DanteQ:
"Linked" by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.

He's a world-renown expert on networks (not just computer networks), and explains with examples how our society and everything within it evolves toward networks (as in Graph-Theorem). Very interesting book, mostly because you never realized so many things in your environment which you thought were random actually are following networks.

Sukichan:
Fantasy

Must add my voice to the people who recommended "Malazan Book of the Fallen". While there're many people here who recommend Wheel of Time I suggest all of you also take a look at this one. RJ has the greatest attention to detail and worldwide character creation in his epic tale, and the only one I've found so far that's up to par is Steven Eriksson. His writing is relentless... the world is brutal, the characters are wicked and I absolute love it. War is dark and he definitely gives it an unique touch you've never read before. Only one more book to go and the series is finished and even thou I've hold WoT as nr.1 for a long time I believe that in the end I'll favor Malazan. Eriksson's writing haven't shown any sign of faltering and I don't have that much faith in ghost writers I'm afraid, haven't read "The Gathering Storm" yet so I'll find that out eventually.

Atm I myself am searching for the second book of "A Godless World" and "The Magician's Apprentice" that a few people previously mentioned.

Ixarku:
I'm 250 pages or so into Reaper's Gale (book 7 of The Malazan) and I'm still really impressed with the series.  The writing throughout the series has been very evenly paced, moreso than I think WoT was at the same point.  I think the only time so far that I've felt like the story has dragged was around the middle of Midnight Tides (book 5)... but Midnight Tides had so much other really good stuff in it that it wasn't that big of deal.

(click to show/hide) In Midnight Tides, Hull Beddict and Featherwitch annoyed the hell out of me.  Featherwitch has just been a bitch in that whole story arc, and Hull was the only character in the entire story so far that just seemed to be utterly useless. 
I think my only real complaint about the Malazan is that there's so many characters, and there's so much subterfuge going on that it's difficult to keep straight which ascendant or which god is supposed to be on what side of the conflict.  (Heck, half the time, even if you know who's who you still don't know what side they're on.) I think this lessens the overall impact of that aspect of the story, as it's difficult to sustain the reader's interest in unfamiliar characters.

However, one of the best things about the Malazan is that there are so many great characters.  This is one of the few stories where I'm expecting my favorite characters to come into conflict with each other at some point, and I'm not sure who I'll be cheering for -- and I'm really looking forward to getting to that point.

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