Novels?

Ironic Pink and I had an interesting conversation today about what novels we thought should make a best-of list. I thought it would be fun to see what books make y'all's lists of favorites. I'll start.

Here's my list for this moment, in no particular order. Don't make me choose a favorite, now.

• Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• ok, everything by Toni Morrison
  
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Harry Potter series by you-know-who
  
• The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
  
• The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
  

Ok, I'll stop. I could go on . . .