The religious works of C. S. Lewis (especially The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity)
The Harry Potter books
All Jane Austen books (except Northanger Abbey)
E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
David Sedaris (edited): Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (collection of short stories)
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
Jon McCullough: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Åsne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul
Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Jon Scieszka: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Paolo Coehlo: Veronika Decides to Die
Charlotte Brontë: Villette
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner