After looking over my shelves, here's some recommended reading from the fiction category. I've placed these in alphabetical order by author's last name.
I consider the following to be Fantastic Fiction:
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz
Alan Bennett - An Uncommon Reader
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
G. K. Chesterton - Father Brown, The Flying Inn, The Ballad of the White Horse, Four Faultless Felons, The Ball and the Cross, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Manalive, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington, Murder on the Orient Express
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
E. M. Forster - A Room with a View
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
Roger Lancelyn Green - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ernest Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises
Homer - The Illiad, The Odessey
James Howe - Bunnicula, Howliday Inn, Nighty-Nightmare, Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Alice Kimberly - The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces
George MacDonald - Phantastes, Lilith, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie
Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Christopher Morley - Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Christopher Paolini - Eragon
Frank Peretti - The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold-Bug
Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympians
Barbara Robinson - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Thomas Rockwell - How to Eat Fried Worms
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter
Dorothy Sayers - Clouds of Witness, Striding Folly, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
Charles M. Sheldon - In His Steps
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker - Dracula
J. R. R. Tolkien - Smith of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Anthony Trollope - The Warden
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Virgil - The Aeneid
H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Charles Williams - Descent into Hell, All Hallows' Eve
P. G. Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves
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