Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (when it comes out in paperback)
Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes (When it comes out in paperback)
George Eliot by Jennifer Uglow
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides(When it comes out in paperback)
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (after Mrs Dalloway)
Affinity by Sarah Waters
A Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth
The Ambassadors by Henry James
A Room with a View by EM Forster
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (4)
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (5)
A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou (6)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
White Oleander by Janet Fitch