What Do You Read For Your Writing?

What books I read is mostly determined with an eye toward helping me with my writing. I first turn to my favorite classic authors for ideas for my own fictional stories and novels.

As I read one of these stories, one question is always on my mind: How can I turn this classic story into one of my own, with my own stamp on it, my own setting, characters, and plot? My favorites include: Faulkner, Hemingway, Nabokov, Poe, Kafka, Borges. For literary influences, I stick to the best.

Many of the stor...