Great Books

Here is a list I compiled from discussion at a party I went to a while back.  Most are my recommendations - some are from others at the party.  We had very similar tastes in reading.
 

Susan Vreeland, Artemisia, Clara and Mr. Tiffany and all of them.  (from me - art history fiction 

David Edding, The Belgariad

Ann Forsythe (wasn't sure if this is the right spelling, or what book?  Can someone elucidate this one?)

A Wrinkle in Time
The Mists of Avalon
The Kin of Ata

The Ascent of Money

Autobiography of a Yogi
The Handmaid's Tale

Daniel Deronda (the link has a little shameless self-promotion - I read the Librivox version.  If you're not already friends with Librivox, you will love it - an online community of volunteers putting all public domain books online in audio form, free to the public!)

Thornyhold
And more from Becky because you can never have enough good books in queue:

Geraldine Brooks   People of the Book

Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys

Ann Lamott Operating Instructions

Ann Rivers Siddons Peachtree Road

Anna Quindlan One True Thing

Denise Williamson -  1) The Dark Sun Rises , 2) When Stars Begin to Fall 

Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite