Like Sarah, I loved Catch-22and then Something Happened, and lots and lots of science fiction (particularly Heinlein, who I can barely stand to read anymore, Harlan Ellison, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Moorcock.) I read lots of serial stuff, Conan, Doc Savage, that sort of stuff. Creem magazine, obsessively. I discovered Vonnegut my junior year. Classic horror, Frankenstein, Dracula, stuff like that. And for some reason, Art Buchwald. Did I mention stuff? I read every Beatles biography I could find in the 9th and 10th grades (I remember being shocked at John Lennon's repeated use of the phrase "piss off", and even more so, that such language was tolerated in a book held by the public library.)