Here are 12 of my favourites:
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Secret history - Donna Tartt
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
I can't describe all ten except to say they all had a combination of wonderful writing, the power to attach me emotionally, great story, or hilarious.