Obviously that reduces it from the universe of "all books" or even "all books I've read" to "all books in my current line of sight."
So, in no particular order:
George Eliot, Middlemarch.
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.
AS Byatt, Still Life.
Nabokov, Lolita.
Richard Powers, The Prisoner's Dilemma.
Robertson Davies, The Cornish Trilogy.
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace.
Graham Greene, The Quiet American.
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled.
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men.
