Favourite books?

[Joseph Curwen]

The Whisperer in darkness, [...]

Seconded. Let me add "At the mountains of madness", "The dream Quest for unknown Kadath", The Shadow out of Time

Further (in no particular order): Flatland (Abbott), A Series of Unfortunate Events (Snicket), Lord of the Flies (Golding), New Atlantis (Bacon), The Hollow Needle/ Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin (Leblanc), The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)

In German: Anna Karenina (Tolstoi), Die Verwandlung (Kafka), Die Känguru-Chroniken (Kling), Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher (Moers, I believe an English translation exists)

If you are literate in German, read "Die Känguruh-Chroniken" by Marc-Uwe Kling, its the funniest book I read in the last years.