Some of my favourite novels (in no particular order):
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Heart Songs, Close Range, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
True Grit by Charles Portis