I'm not very keen on novels, I'm so prosaic, in college when I read a lot I liked stuff like Thucydides and Sir James Frazer's
The Golden Bough. 8D From
Nineteen Eighty-Four I actually enjoyed the appendix on Newspeak more than the story.
But where's
Moby Dick?!
Herman Hesse is for teenagers or hippies,
I read
Steppenwolf and
Siddhartha, and I liked (the first part of)
Steppenwolf better.
I've also read
The Lord of the Rings, I like it, but I actually prefer the
Silmarillion and
The Children of Húrin.
And
The Good Soldier Švejk (not bad, not great),
Alice in Wonderland, and the
Iliad and the
Odyssey; but nothing else from that list.
I read all of Robert Graves' historical novels and liked them a lot to varying degrees.