(but I also have other favorites not included in this list because my favorites here do not include the favorites I read starting 2011 :D)

• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
• To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• all Sherlock Holmes stories (although technically they're not a novel), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami