older:

• snow country - yasunari kawabata
• jane eyre - charlotte bronte
• the portrait of a lady - henry james
• lolita - vladimir nabokov
• steppenwolf - hermann hesse
• portrait of the artist as a young man - james joyce
• breakfast at tiffany's - truman capote
• wide sargasso sea - jean rhys
• love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
• flowers for algernon - daniel keyes
• the giver - lois lowry
• the tale of genji - murasaki shikibu
• a streetcar named desire - tennessee williams
• the crucible - arthur miller

newer:

• the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides
• kafka on the shore - haruki murakami
• the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
• never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
• american gods - neil gaiman
• reading lolita in tehran - azar nafisi
• house of leaves - mark z. danielewski
• on beauty - zadie smith