I'm not an avid reader but the 1st book i read was 2 States - The Story Of My Marriage By Chetan Bhagat... I liked it very much
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum Hermann Hesse's (Nobel Prize-winning) The Glass Bead Game John Fowles' The Magus Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
Stranger in a Strange Land I just recently started and finished The Alchemist as well, and that novel is quickly moving up my list of favorites.