Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
A Stroke of Midnight
Laurell K. Hamilton
The human stain
Philip Roth
3rd Degree
James Patterson
About a Boy
Nick Hornby
All the pretty horses
Cormac McCarthy
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon
David Copperfield
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Pyramids
Terry Pratchett
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence; Victoria Blake
This side of paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald