Love anything by Vonnegut, and the entire Hitchiker's Series (actually, I enjoyed everything Douglas Adams wrote).
On the fantasy side, I raised myself on Dragonlance. The series got out of hand, I'm sure there are hundreds upon hundreds of books now, but the original trilogy and the first handful of additional trilogies were some of the best of the genre. They skew juvenile, they're hardly LotR, but I thought the characters were great.
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