Can you reccommend a good book for me?

It depends... what do you mean by classical? The Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Christo, Don Quixhote, 1001 Nights and Decameron for collections of stories (don't be fooled by the disneyfied versions. the Sindbad story was quite brutal IIRC)... How about some Dostoyevski or Tolstoi or Goethe?

Ooh, Remarque! "All's quiet on the Western Front" - zounds better than that whiny drivelly Hemingway.

do you like Fantastical realism? of the modern authors I think Paulo Coelho is the best known but for my taste he's a bit... repetitive and simple. However, the oldies like Marquez (100 years of solitude), Hesse (Steppewolf) or Bulgakov (Master and Margarita) are rather awesome.

I'm a huge fan of Umberto Eco (my absolute favourite is Foucault's Pendulum) and Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana), but a lot of people have trouble getting into the story. they're quite deep though underneath the main story. Tigana for instance is a fantasy-take on the psychology of an entire nation whose name physically cannot be spoken any more

since this topic already exists, can anyone recommend something funny/witty?

and no, I don't mean joke books or base scatological humour.

have you ever tried the Disk World books by Terry Pratchett? They're all in the same world and some of the characters recur but all of the novels are standalones.

The Fifth Wave

The first six chapters of Daniel make for excellent reading. Chapters 7-12 are also pretty good.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, superb series I thought, some historical information wound around a fiction story

If you can appreciate clever/funny, Douglas Adams - pick one. Terry Prachett, same thing. If you have moved to an ereader and think there's no such thing as a good zombie novel (and can overlook spotty editing) check out William Bebb's work. When reading Bebb, the characters were so compelling I often found myself wondering how I got to 100+ minutes on my exercise bike.

From the mentions further back in the thread I'd agree that Confederacy of Dunces and The Lovely Bones are well worth your time.

Khaled Hosseini's - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Erin Gruwell - The Freedom Writers (very much like Anne Frank's Diary)

Bumping for suggestions when my Kindle needs refilling.

It depends... what do you mean by classical? The Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Christo, Don Quixhote, 1001 Nights and Decameron for collections of stories (don't be fooled by the disneyfied versions. the Sindbad story was quite brutal IIRC)... How about some Dostoyevski or Tolstoi or Goethe?

Ooh, Remarque! "All's quiet on the Western Front" - zounds better than that whiny drivelly Hemingway.

do you like Fantastical realism? of the modern authors I think Paulo Coelho is the best known but for my taste he's a bit... repetitive and simple. However, the oldies like Marquez (100 years of solitude), Hesse (Steppewolf) or Bulgakov (Master and Margarita) are rather awesome.

I'm a huge fan of Umberto Eco (my absolute favourite is Foucault's Pendulum) and Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana), but a lot of people have trouble getting into the story. they're quite deep though underneath the main story. Tigana for instance is a fantasy-take on the psychology of an entire nation whose name physically cannot be spoken any more

since this topic already exists, can anyone recommend something funny/witty?

and no, I don't mean joke books or base scatological humour.

have you ever tried the Disk World books by Terry Pratchett? They're all in the same world and some of the characters recur but all of the novels are standalones.

yes, I've read pratchett and discworld.
I prefer his stand alone book with gaiman.

I recommend you sing up for goodreads.com. You rate books you;ve read and they recommend things you might like based on your ratings of other books. If you like comedies/ sci-fi/ fantasy types, I recommend Terry Prachett's Diskworld series and anything by Neil Gaiman.

used to be huge gaiman fan, but lately he does kids stuff mostly.
Pratchett is alright, but a bit lowest common denominator humour.

If you would like some humor - try reading "Paying the Piper" by Sharon McCrumb.
She is an Appalachian (read App-a-latch-un) area writer who mixes wry humor and loveable characters into fun mysteries. Some of her other novels are darker "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" - some more trendy "St. Dale" about NASCAR, some just plain kooky "Bimbos of the Death Star". You will be entertained and charmed.

I am a voracious reader as well. I'm always on the hunt for new reads. I mostly enjoy real-life crime drama, fiction detective stuff. And anything by Stephen King. I read on a Nook - LOVE it!

I'm currently reading through The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Very Tolkien-esque. I just finished the 3rd one last night, started the 4th today.

You can't go wrong with The Stand by Stephen King. It's my favorite book that I've ever read. It's a lengthy fantasy about a virus mistakenly-released by the military that kills over 99% of the population of the world. The story follows how this happens, and then how the world regroups afterward. There is a struggle between Good and Evil in control of the world.

I love the Detective Alex Cross series by James Patterson (yes, the same Patterson of The Notebook fame, but the Cross novels are completely different).

I tend to read series books which is both gratifying that I can follow the characters I've grown to love and also incredibly frustrating when I'm waiting for the next books to come out. Outlander, et al by Diana Gabaldon is the one I'm working on currently; for light easy reading I enjoy everything Janet Evanovich. Other authors include: Frank Peretti, Brad Thor, James Patterson, and (my not-so-secret obsession) Laurell K. Hamilton.

So many posts here! Love the Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell mysteries by Laurie R. King. Also the Ethan Gage novels by William Dietrich. You said you don't want just romance, but you can't beat Victoria Holt for classic Gothic romance. 8^)