Growing list of recommendations but hard to pin first novel to read cuz it's unavailable or something. If I run out of things to read go to here for more reading:

• Neal Stephenson - cyberpunk
• Douglas Coupland - coming of age, witty pop culture shit
• Haruki Murakami - Japanese author. tried Sputnik Sweetheart, need to reattempt it.
• Piers Anthony. Incarnations of Immorality. cool
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Michael Chabon - shitload in ramapo library
• Charlie Higson - The Dead, The Enemy, middle school zombie attacks.
• Jessica Zafra, Angelo Suarez, and Bob Ong
• Paul Haines - very vicious and creepy. i love it
• Simon Petrie - Rare Unsigned Copy
• Noah Cicero
• Amelia Gray - said to be real weird. Museum of the Weird and Am/PM
• Darren Shan - Cirque Du Freak and other gory ass sagas. Sound intriguing and awesome.