Some of my all-time favorite books:

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucria
Dacia Mariani

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

The Plague
Albert Camus

The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Haruki Murakami

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren

The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki

Romola
George Eliot

Collected Stories
Alice Munro

The Cider House Rules
John Irving