i should totally go back to high school and ask my teacher for some books :P
We read alot (grrr IB) Tempest, Odyssey, Hamlet, The House of Spirits, Like Water for Chocolate, Jane Eyre, Swann, in the Skin of a Lion, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Fifth Business. On top of all this, we had poetry *yay* (Sylvia Plath, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost)

From all these books, i would totally rec One day.. and House of Spirits