Ma, I <3 Haruki Murakami and Flann O' Brien.

I love these two authors above all others. They somehow manage to convince you that it is plausible that a man could talk to cats or visit alternate realities through a well or turn into a bird. I strongly recommend reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles & Kafka on the Shore by Murakami and The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds by Flann O Brien. Although anything you pick up by either should bring you a world of wild imagination.