I love W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Germinal - Zola
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

More "recent" classics -
Doctor Zhivago
Lolita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
House of the Spirits

DH Lawrence had a couple I couldn't put down:

Sons & Lovers
Lady Chatterly Lovers
Women in Love

also:
Frankenstein
Les Miserables
Brothers Karamozov
Tale of Two Cities

Love Willa Cather!

Anonymous wrote:Great Expectations by Dickens
Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
anything by Balzac
anything by Jack London

Yes, when I was in high school and college I loved George Eliot - so, OP, you might want to check out Eliot. I remember liking Mill on the Floss, like this pp, but I also remember adoring Middlemarch. Caveat - now that I'm older I don't know that I would fall for the weepy sort of plot line but I remember really liking it then. I read almost all of her novels but Middlemarch was the one I remember best.
Also if you haven't read them, Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Shirley were both quite enjoyable. I particularly loved Villette - although now that I'm older I don't know how I'd feel about the heroine's love relationship.

Gone With the Wind
House of Cards - Edith Wharton

Sister Carrie
Dracula
The Magnificent Ambersons

Read all of these when I first got my Kindle and was looking for free classics. I was surprised how "modern" they read. All very engaging.

A Picture of Dorian Gray

Anonymous wrote:East of Eden: Steinbeck LOVE!

+1 million. Fantastic novel.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (IDK if this counts as a classic in the purest sense, but I loved it)

Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (well, anything by him)

Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite Tom Wolfe

I enjoyed Oliver Twist, but I've found Dickens to be pretty divisive

The Basil and Josephine Stories, by F. Scott Fitzergerald (also Tender Is the Night)

And the PPs who said Vanity Fair are dead on. Loved it.

Classics: Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Vanity Fair, Madame Bovary

Contemporary Literary Novels:

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Marjorie Morningstar.

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Brithers Karamazov; The Idiot. Dostoyevsky in general is a more captivating read than Tolstoy.

Nicolas and Alexandra
Portrait of a Lady
Bleak House
Call it Sleep
How Green was My Valley