Here are some of my favorite books, many of which I have read dozens of times. I suppose that is the mark of a truly great book, that you can read it over and over again and still enjoy it. I hope you will find some of your own favorites here as well.
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David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Light In August, by William Faulkner
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Candide, by Voltaire
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
The Dune Trilogy, by Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Don Quixote, by Cervantes
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding