DaanO, I'm agree with you about Aldous Huxley, I have only read Brave New World, but was really boring... but Verne? Maybe is because I had read these books when I was very young, but definetly I keep very good memories from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon or Michael Strogoff 
My favorite book list that I can remember:
Arturo Perez-Reverte - El Capitan Alatriste´s saga, El Club Dumas.
Dumas - The Three Musketeers
Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Años de Soledad, Relato de un Naufrago
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Carl Sagan - Contact
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa - Ébano, Tuareg
Mika Waltari - The Egyptian, The Dark Angel
HG Wells - The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Anyway, lately I´ve lost my lecture habits and I barely read a few books per year... (damm you internet, computer and consoles! [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif] )