My list in no particular order:

Easyrider, anything and everything by HG Wells and Jules Verne.... Better make that twice. Almost everything by Alan Dean Foster... What the hell, If you got a few days to kill you might as well go for Mission Earth by L Ron Hubbard...

I'd rather read to escape this world than to read to find out whats going on in it...

There's always Fox news for that! :p