Villette by Charlotte Bronte
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Go for it, AuntiePam. 
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller.
The Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger.
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forrster.
A Light in August, by William Faulkner.
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (again) by J.K. Toole
GENERATION X by Douglas Coupland
I, CLAUDIUS/CLAUDIUS THE GOD (I’m counting this as one) by Robert Graves
WINDS OF WAR/WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (ditto) by Herman Wouk (though this will make many folks hate me as it was critically panned)
IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
For the sake of fairness, please let me add five by women authors:
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES by Lee Smith
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST by Anne Tyler
SEARCHING FOR CALEB by Anne Tyler
THE GOOD EARTH (and sequels) by Pearl Buck
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE by Anne Rice (each sequel being just that much worse)
Bibliocat, I might give it a try, when it slows down a bit.
I just noticed that Pat Barker made someone’s list too – the Regeneration Trilogy.
Her other books are good too – I think I’ve read them all, and she is a master of the “no bulls***” school of writing.
Now I wish I had mentioned Robertson Davies – esp. the Deptford Trilogy.
Please strike “Generation X” above and write in “God Knows” by Joseph Heller. Please strike “In Cold Blood” in favor of Breakfast of Champions.
I won’t hate you. Those are two of my favorites, too!
Damn. I went to bed last night thinking about this list. I can’t stop at just five. Just call me a bookaholic. 
I have to add:
Roots
Pillars of the Earth
Interview with the Vampire
The Man who talks to Horses (about the REAL horse whisperer)
Crimson Petal and the White
Caine Mutiny…Herman Wouk
Shogun…James Clavell
Holocaust…Gerald Green
Cruel Sea…Nicholas Monasrrat
Eye of the Needle…Ken Follett
I don’t have a database program and I couldn’t figure out how to get Word to sort by the number, in order, but here are all the books mentioned that had more than one vote, with the number of votes. I’ll bet someone with a database/Access program could do better:
5 1984
7 – The Stand
6 – The Lord of the Rings
4 – The Godfather
4 – The Grapes of Wrath
4 – The Great Gatsby
4 – The Witching Hour
3 – The Brothers Karamazov
2 – The Good Earth
2 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2 – The Dollmaker
2 – The God of Small Things
2 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2 – The Maltese Falcon
2 – The Name of the Rose
2 – The Notebook
2 – The Princess Bride
2 – The Secret History
2 – The Stranger
2 – The Woman in White
2 – The World According to Garp
12 - Catch 22
4 - A Confederacy of Dunces
5 - A Prayer for Owen Meaney
2 - A Soldier of the Great War
2 - A Suitable Boy
3 - A Tale of Two Cities
3 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2 - Alice in Wonderland
2 - All Quiet on the Western Front
2 - Animal Farm
2 - As I Lay Dying
4 - Beloved
4 - Catcher in the Rye
2 - Chronicles of Narnia
3 - Cold Mountain
3 - Confederacy of Dunces
5 - Crime and Punishment
2 - Dandelion Wine
6 - Dune
2 - East of Eden
3 - For Whom the Bell Tolls
2 - Geek Love
6 - Gone with The Wind
2 - Great Expectations
2 - Hamlet
4 - I, Claudius
3 - Jane Eyre
5 - Les Miserables
2 - Light in August
2 - Like a Hole in the Head
3 - Little Women
2 - Little, Big
7 - Lolita
2 - Love In The Time of Cholera
3 - Mists of Avalon
2 - Moby Dick
2 - Of Mice And Men
4 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
2 - Pillars of the Earth
6 - Pride & Prejudice
6 - Rebecca
2 - Sirens of Titan
4 - Slaughterhouse Five
2 - Still Life with Woodpecker
2 - Stranger in A Strange Land
2 - Titus Groan and Gormenghast
15 - To Kill a Mockingbird
2 - Vanity Fair
2 - Vile Bodies
6 - Watership Down
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
1984 by George Orwell
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (counting all five books as one)
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O’Toole
Lolita - Nabokov
To Say Nothing Of The Dog - Connie Willis
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
This list is more representative than it is accurate. So many good books.
(In no particular order):
Dandelion Whine- Ray Bradbury
Anthem- Ayn Rand
To Kill a mockingbird- Harper Lee
Relic- Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Cabinet of Curiosities- Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Merla
!!!
Er, that’s Dandelion WINE, not whine. You’d think all this readin’ would teach me to type better!
Merla
Best/favorite novel I’ve ever read is easy:
- Of Human Bondage * W.S. Maugham (actually a little surprised no one else has mentioned Maugham)
The other four weren’t as easy. But here they are, in no particular order.
- Winds of War * and * War and Rememberance * Herman Wouk (also counting these as one book)
- Brave New World * Aldous Huxley
- Fountainhead * Ayn Rand
- Tale of Two Cities * Dickens
And don’t you ever make me pick just five again! That was hard! 
A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
The Shining - Stephen King
The Bride Wore Black - Cornell Woolrich
The Amber Chronicles - Roger Zelazny
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Anything by Wilbur Smith or Desmond Bagley
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Watchers - Dean Koontz
I can’t limit myself to five, but I got my list down to these:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Catseye by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Wow, AuntiePam, that’s some impressive compiling. [Not-so-obligatory “Friends” reference]We might have a place for you in data entering and configuration.[/“Friends” ref]
This is incredibly difficult since I feel I have so many beloved books. But here goes:
Here are mine:
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Compulsion by Myer Levin
Christine by Stephen King
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
No Night is Too Long by Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine)
I don’t have much to add to these except The Quiet American, which I read about 20 years ago and I still think about and recommend, as I do To Kill a Mockingbird and I, Claudius, both of which I read in high school. Foucault’s Pendulum is the only novel I’ve ever had to read with a dictionary and a set of encyclopedias at my side. Terrific novel. Lastly, I was going to include The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, but I think it would have to be one of John Le Carre’s George Smiley novels, so I’ll pick Smiley’s People.