Mostly strategy and role-playing games, but it depends on my mood. Sometimes I need action, sometimes I just want to enjoy atmosphere and/or a great story
Actually I ´d never read a book just because of the name on it, and so I don´t really have a favourite author. Sam Savage for example did a great job on „Firmin“, but I don´t even know if he wrote any other books (well, mostly because I´m too lazy to find out xD).