This is a collection of short stories, ideal for getting back into reading. Murakami's narrative style is descriptive but clean, and if you really dig it, he's got a number of excellent novels (all available at your local library or Border's). He's one of my favorite writers, very literary but not at all elitist.
On Subbing: The First Four Years by Dave
This is a sort of journal/autobiography by an honest-to-god punk who decided to join society as a teaching assistant. It sounds dry but it's really engrossing; I've turned a few people on to it and no one's been disappointed.
Twilight (and the first 2 sequels) is genuinely entertaining, but doesn't ask too much of you. I tore through it in one sitting.
your profile says you like M.A.S.H. so why not read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. (deja vu, have I said this already?) I tink that MASH was a bad version of that book. He did a follow up book about all the characters being old fuckers. It was funny, but really the same type of thing.
I always push people to read Vonnegut, particularly "bluebeard"