I read constantly and here are some from my rather eclectic list

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson


"No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that which experience has given him no access." -Nietzche