Pacen, I really like Bryce Courtenay. I haven't read the Power of One yet, but I will one day. I recently read "The Family Frying Pan" by Courtenay, it's good reading.
Other authors I like are Anne Rice, Thomas Harris, Stephen King and some John Grisham.
Picture books are fun, too. Anything by Edward Gorey. An Australian picturebook I got ages ago by Gary Crew and Stephen Woolman is "The Watertower." It's very creepy, about a watertower in an outback Australian town, a couple of kids go swimming in there and strange things start to happen...
