OH YEAH! (I like literature threads.)

I tend to like individual books more than authors (i.e. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden, althouh the latter isn't really fiction) but if I had to choose an author it would most definitely be Nikos Kazantzakis. Dense, metaphorical, metaphysical, psychedelic, philosophical... beautiful. He's the reason I used to be named "Zorba."