So I've been desperately trying to find me some interesting books to read but being a complete book-newbie and an avid, long time electrical/visual entertainment supporter I really don't know where to start or look from. SO if you know or have read some interesting books please tell me!

To narrow down the selection a bit here's some keypoints of my preference;

+ surreal, strange
+ fantasy (Miyazaki type of stuff)
+ horror (real nasty stuff, bucketfulls of blood and intestines)
+ placed in 1970->
+ cyber-/steampunk
+ mindboggling biographies / non-fiction stories
+ awesomeness

+/- crime/detective stories

- fantasy (dragons and all that shit)
- placed before the 1970s
- war stories

_{(I'm planning to go rent Hyperion, Neuromancer and Dune so those can be left out.)}

Blast away!