I think someone here recommended this to me years ago; "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry is truly fantastic.
And I always recommend "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" to anyone who'll listen.
Nominally sci-fi but way more than that in my opinion are the 'Hyperion' novels by Dan Simmons.
+1 for Iain M/Iain Banks Having gone through his sci-fi collection I moved onto his real world with Whit & Complicity. Crow road is next and need to order a few more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
deluded - MemberAt The Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
This is a great book.
Thought slaughterhouse 5 was very underwhelming.
[b]The Third Policeman by Flann O Brien[/b]
is unlike any other book i've read. Brilliant.
Zorba the greek
The book thief
Extremely loud and incredibly close
One hundred years of solitude
Fugitive pieces
Lonesome Dove
The Son by Phillip Meyer
Clavels Shogun is a good read,
As is everything written by Bernard Cornwall, Michael Crichton, George Macdonnel Fraser (Flashman),