• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
• White Oleander, Janet Fitch
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian), Rick Riordan
• The Heroes of Olympus 3: The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan
• The Heroes of Olympus Book 2: Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan
• The Devil Wears Prada

• To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
• On The Road, Jack Kerouac
• Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• 1Q84, Haruki Murakami + 1984, George Orwell

• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
• Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
• Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
• A Cheat's Guide to the Classics (35 of the World's Greatest Literary Masterpieces from Pride and Prejudice to War and Peace)
• Chocolat, Joanne Harris
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

(but I also have other favorites not included in this list because my favorites here do not include the favorites I read starting 2011 :D)

• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
• To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• all Sherlock Holmes stories (although technically they're not a novel), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Looking for Alaska, John Green
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan