recent reads of notable interest in the last 15 - 24 months, not in any particular order:

Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Grimus by Salman Rushdie
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Lucky by Alice Sebold
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Shortcuts by Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Will You Please Be Quiet Please by Raymond Carver

Currently reading:

A Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde