Science authors: Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Amy Stewart, Mary Roach
Videogame types: Dead Space, Mass Effect
Trash but can't help it: Sarah J Mass
Actual books:
Pretty much anything by Michael McDowell
Pretty much anything by Charles Bukowski
Anything by Richard Bach
"The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker -- I refuse to read Everville until he finishes the story, I'm not trying to do a George R.R. Martin scenario
"Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker
Dark Tower series - Stephen King
"Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk
"John Dies at the End" by David Wong (pretty sure it is a series, but haven't gotten to it)
"Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley
"The Portable Henry Rollins" by Henry Rollins
"Last Call" by Tim Powers (pretty sure this also a series)
"Weight" Jeanette Winterson
Warren Ellis is pretty good too, but he's such a creep I can't bring myself to read anything he's released past Crooked Little Vein.